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...year-old Winwood's most recent effort is Go, a strange and spacey album that combines elements from electronic music, jazz, classical music, reggae, salsa, and just the slightest touch of rock and roll. Recorded with Japanese avant-garde composer and percussionist Stomu Yamashta and former Santana guitarist Michael Shrieve. Go is an extraordinarily innovative work which demands more than casual listening. Yet the heavy emphasis on electronic music--the sounds of synthesizers and the electronic instrumental effects throughout--make listening a bizarre, somewhat alienating experience...
More proof that Boston is a jazz guitar town: Mr. Commercial, George Benson, is coming to Symphony Hall on Friday to play with his Tower of Power group. Don't forget Benson is the formerly right-on guitarist from Arista and CTI records who used to play heavy jazz. He is now in the more lucrative disco scene. I don't know, I used to like Benson, but he's beginning to sound like everyone else. Check him out yourself. The acoustics are better at Symphony than they are at the local clubs...
...forget that series of three concerts to be held next week at the Berklee Performance Center. Those concerts, all sponsored by ECM records, feature Terje Rypdal, a fine European guitarist along with American guitarists, Pat Methany, Ralph Towner and John Abercromble. Those concerts will be held next Thursday and Friday. Call Berklee for more information...
Starting Monday guitarist Charlie Byrd will appear with his trio at Sandy's. Byrd fancies himself a jazz and classical guitarist--"Blues and Bach" is a trademark. His trio, with brother Joe on bass and Bertrell Knox on drums should provide some interesting club music...
...recent depletion of its talent roster, Hurok Concerts still handles a respectable array of artists, including Van Cliburn, Sviatoslav Richter, Henryk Szeryng, Nathan Milstein, Janet Baker, Nicolai Gedda and Artur Rubinstein. One of the joys of the new Shaw-Hurok liaison, said Shaw last week, is that now Guitarist Bream and Mezzo Baker can give joint recitals in the U.S., as they have in England. One of the things wrong with the business-most music managers being as single-minded as Charlie Finley-is that Bream and Baker could not do that before...