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Listening to the first of the double-disc album Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985 is a singularly surreal experience. When the legendary electric blues guitarist took the stage at the Swiss jazz festival on July 17, 1982, he was a relative unknown, receiving third billing under drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. Throughout that night, Stevie Ray unleashed a torrent of blistering, fiery blues, but in a bizarre historical turn, the audience’s reaction mixed applause and jeers in equal parts. The story goes that Vaughan left the stage in tears...
Frankie V is huge in just about every sense of the word. Physically, personally and emotionally, the trumpet and flugelhorn player exudes an air larger than life. He brought that personality to Ryles Jazz Club in Cambridge on Nov. 3, assembling a six-piece band including percussionist Eguie Castrillo and guitarist Bruce Bartlett, in one of Frankie’s three stops in town this year...
...Ryles has long been a proving and training ground for many Berklee students. Undoubtedly, Frankie has visited before, playing under the lithograph of the venerable Lester Young. This night, Frankie seemed especially welcome, hamming it up with the capacity crowd and coaxing from his sidemen a uniquely smooth jazz-funk sound under Ryles’ sweaty lights...
...Another Star,” Frankie put down his trumpet, picked up the microphone and did something uncharacteristic for a jazz performer—he encouraged audience participation. Supported by Castrillo, he urged the audience to sing, recapturing the introduction of Wonder’s original track. The only reason it didn’t seem bizarre was that earlier in the evening, Frankie stepped into the crowd, joking and shaking hands while his rhythm section furiously pounded out Latin beats. The effect was truly surreal. With a radio microphone fitted into the bell of his trumpet, Frankie occasionally broke...
...Komal, in a helicopter crash at Rara Lake that killed four; in western Nepal. Princess Prekshya, separated from Prince Dhirendra (who was killed in the June royal family massacre), was cremated on the banks of the sacred Bagmati River with full state honors. DIED. DAVID FRANCIS, 82, the great jazz drummer who led the swinging Savoy Sultans to the New York Jazz Society's Best Big Band award in 1980 and two Grammy nominations for Best Album; in Orlando. Francis was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 1993. DIED. TONY MILES, 46, Britain's first chess...