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Others may come to the Square to practice in front of an audience, to publicize a future gig, or just for fun. A recent graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Ed Bernstein likes to beat his conga drum along Brattle St. After finishing work at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bernstein starts searching around Paperback Booksmith for other musicians to join...
...Bernstein (Conga drum) -- A graduate of RPI, he makes up his face with black, silver and blue makeup and joins other musicians along Brattle St., usually on Tuesday. He calls what he does improvisation. "It's like jazz out not like it's taken to mean by Berkeley students." Originally from Long Island., Bernstein plans to write a book for street musicians under the name of Tem Noon...
...Matamoros, on the southern tip of the Rio Grande Valley, Mexican and American white-collar workers sip Scotch and water at Blanca White's, while a marimba-and-drum combo plays local salsa-flavored music. Young women from Matamoros cross into Brownsville daily to attend Texas Southmost College. They party on the U.S. side in blue jeans and T shirts, on their home turf in cocktail dresses. Affluent Americans in El Paso drink margaritas and munch tamale and chili canapes at black-tie affairs. When they visit friends in Juarez, their parties start earlier and linger long into the night...
...males are only slightly better. As the miner fighting to save his claim, Michael Moriarty is safely cast. As he did in Bang the Drum Slowly, Moriarty excels as the ordinary man caught in extraordinary situations. Christophe, Penn, on the other hand, has a long way to go before equaling his more famous brother's talent...
There is a lot of first-string instrumental talent on Empire Burlesque: Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones present and Mick Taylor of the Stones past; Drummer Jim Keltner; and most especially the drum and bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who give the record a funky, rumpled-up, island-inflected, rhythmic drive. With all this professional sheen, Empire Burlesque is still startling, an unexpected flash-forward. Like a sudden cut in a film, this record is disorienting at first -- Where did this come from? What's going on? -- but so well judged and timed that after...