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Stanton Davis and Ghetto Mysticism. Expect for a short fill-in gig a while back, this marks the first engagement at Boston's best jazz club for this locally based avant garde group. It's been long awaited. Trumpetist Davis leads a six man contingent with a free-wheeling, fluid style that fits in somewhere between the wanderings of freer "black music" and the excesses of more melodic (read electronic) music. Davis and Ghetto Mysticism have been nearly alone as proponents of free music in Boston, and anyone whose ears have been plugged against the softer wares of so-called...
...mayors of many U.S. cities in this hot summer, the threat of ghetto riots is less of a worry than a newer danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The seeds of New York are in every American city." To prevent a bitter harvest, the mayors called for yet more federal aid to augment increasingly burdensome local taxes. They urged Congress to pass President Ford's proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next...
Stanton Devis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band. This fine Jazzy rocky local favorite can be heard at a nice little table in a nice little club, with a nice big beer pretty good conditions. At Pooh's Pub on Comm Ave in Kenmore Square tonight through Sunday...
...dinner and then go out to take their turns patrolling the nearby streets. Usually they are armed with nothing more than clubs and whistles. In Chicago's Woodlawn, a secret organization composed of 22 blacks, half of whom are Viet Nam veterans, has sworn to eradicate crime in the ghetto area by fair means or foul. Late at night and early in the morning, members of the group walk the avenues and alleys of their neighborhood, meting out their own law-and-order to those they consider criminals. "Every now and then, folks dealing in dope get their doors kicked...
...duty cop during an armed robbery. "The crime itself was inexcusable," says MacEwen, who is studying for his M.A. in psychology and works for the Illinois Department of Corrections. "But I was 20, and what I was also holds true for most young whites and blacks in ghetto slum areas. We would classify each other, and then we would have to live up to the classification. I thought I was hip, in the know, wise, and umpteen other things...