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Those who were able to come to the United States, Canada, and Australia often sailed on tightly packed, disease-ridden "coffin ships," aptly named as a large percentage of their passengers never made it to the shores they sought. Even more who survived the grueling Atlantic crossing felt earth again only to be soon buried within it. The island of Grosse Ile, used as a quarantine site for incoming immigrants to Quebec, today holds the graves of thousands. Those who did survive faced widespread and serious discrimination and hatred...
...life. Bryant and Milam went on with theirs, acquitted of any crime. But the rest of the country looked at Mississippi justice and shuddered. America had seen a mother's sorrow. Mamie Till Mobley had shipped her son's battered body back to Chicago and allowed his open coffin to be put on display for four days so the world could see what "they...
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones delivered a private performance last weekend at Tufts University. Besides Bela, the band includes Victor Wooten on bass guitar, "Future Man" (Wooten's brother) on synthesized percussion and Jeff Coffin on sax. Victor Wooten has been voted Bass Player Magazine's "Bassist of the Year" for three years in a row. And it is little wonder why. His mastery of the instrument leaves you room for no other reaction than a open jawdrop as you let out a few nervous laughs, expecting the Apocalypse. This might seem like a strange statement, but this reviewer does...
This is not to say that the performance was perfect. Indeed, Coffin's tone on the tenor sax was considerably less controlled than that of his soprano sax. And certainly the Flecktones' lyrical pieces were less convincing than their instrumental numbers. The 1999 Grammy-nominated "Big Country," for example, proved that instrumentation is where the strength of the Flecktones lies...
...band then returned, with Coffin doing an impressive job of playing two saxes simultaneously in "The Two Horny Blues." And finally an encore was played with Bela on zither banjo, Coffin on flute, "Future Man" tapping a Spanish percussion box and Victor Wooten on cello. The final piece encapsulated the best thing that this concert offered--a chance to see some really down-to-earth guys play some incredible music while making the audience laugh all along...