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Aside from the Indy scene, Cambridge also has world-class performances, at student rates. The American Repertory Theare, one of the most illustrious theatre companies in the country, has student rush tickets for $12. The Regattabar at the Charles Hotel and Scullers Jazz Club at the Doubletree Hotel bring in world-renowned jazz performers. The Huntington Theater Company, located across from Symphony Hall, has student rush tickets for $14. If you want to catch Broadway shows for reduced prices, check out the Bostix kiosks in Copley Square and Faneuil Hall Market Place...
...jazz band played at the pre-game tailgate, and the concession food was supplied by Legal Seafoods—including, cannibalistically, lobster salad...
Southern musicians aren't used to being on the tail end of any genre. After all, the South is where jazz and blues were invented. Where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the devil so he could play the licks that would become rock 'n' roll. Where Ray Charles realized that gospel sounded just as good outside of church. So the past 25 years must have been painful for Southern rappers, having to stand by while New York City and Los Angeles rhymers got all the respect and most of the record sales...
...Tasmania isn't exactly known for its balmy weather, but whatever the season, you'll find some of Australia's hottest jazz at the Courtyard, an outdoor venue behind the arts center at Hobart's historic Salamanca Place. Come Friday nights, it's packed with hundreds of people drinking, dancing and socializing to an ever-changing roster of bands. "We play, rain, hail or shine," says organizer Tania Bosak, a Croatian immigrant and live wire on the local arts scene who started the evenings five years ago. There's no cover charge-instead, band members walk around between sets holding...
DIED. Harold Arlen, 81, popular composer with a distinctively bluesy, jazz-based style who created some of America's most durable and cherished songs, ranging from the bubbling Get Happy, his first hit, in 1929, to the sultry Stormy Weather (1933) and including such perennials as It's Only a Paper Moon, Last Night When We Were Young, Come Rain or Come Shine, The Man That Got Away and, perhaps most memorably, Over the Rainbow, the Academy Award-winning ballad that Judy Garland sang in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz; in New York City. Born Chaim Arluk...