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...ancient Egyptian predecessors in appearance. Capped by a cylindrical black hat, with his long white beard flowing majestically onto his purple-span-gled shirt and sporting a nasty pair of shades, Sanders cut a mean figure at the Regattabar last Saturday night. The other members of the Pharoah Sanders Quartet wore loose-fitting African clothing, creating an atmosphere quite at odds with the upscale Regattabar and its corporate clientele. Unfortunately, it was only the visual appearance of Pharoah's group that was striking, as the saxophone master's normally fertile musical imagination seemed to wither in the sterile Cambridge setting...
Mendelssohn String Quartet. Performs works by Smetana, Rands and Janacek. Paine Concert Hall, 8 p.m. Admission is free but passes from the Holyoke Center Ticket Office are required. Call 495-2663 for more information...
DIED. JULIUS HEMPHILL, 57, jazz saxophonist and composer; of complications from diabetes; in New York City. As a soloist, Hemphill offered a steel-edged, intense tone; as a composer, he reveled in the provocative. His work for the World Saxophone Quartet featured a reedy thicket of sax sound, freely drawing on musical forms from gospel to big band to cool jazz to blues...
...experiment too ... I walked and breathed immersed in a world not mine, not made of me" is a fair sample of his lyric urges. West's prose thrives on making connections: the interactions of hospital gadgetry with his own balky machinery; or how a late Beethoven quartet integrates opposing moods. West lists those moods as bold, mutinous, euphoric, sedate and restive, which add up to a pretty good description of his book...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 876-7777. Johnny Griffin Quartet on Thurs., April 6 through Sat., April 8. The Mili Bermejo quartet on Sun., April...