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Danny Barker knows all about the fundamentals. At 82, the jazz banjoist and guitarist has seen a lot of changes in his hometown since he went north, played with Louis Armstrong and toured with the Cab Calloway orchestra. But the fundamentals don't budge. "New Orleans people are unique," he says, sitting in his shirt-sleeves on the front porch of his white shotgun house. "Somebody goin' to jail? Give him a party. Somebody died? Give him a party. They'd throw a party for a dog's birthday. Here you have a million people raised with a habit...
Chapel series--with classical guitarist Berit Strong. Free, in the MIT chapel Thursday at noon...
MISA FLAMENCA (Nimbus). Guitarist Paco Pena has adapted the texts of the Roman Catholic liturgy and set them to the extroverted melodic and rhythmic emotions of flamenco to compose this earthy, passionate Mass. His musicians and singers charismatically express love of freedom, resignation under oppression and an unconquerable faith that soars from an anguished soul...
Regattabar-in the Charles Hotel at 1 Bennett St. in Cambridge. Call 876-7777. Jazz Tuesdays through Saturdays. Sunday: guitarist Mark Whitfield...
...Weir, the band's rhythm guitarist and occasional lead singer] is the hardest to read. When he's going to play a song, he just counts it out with the drummers and jumps right in," Welnick says...