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...Steve Miller Band, but embarked on a solo career in the early 1970s. While commercial success only found him occasionally throughout the following decades, he remained an obscure critical darling throughout the 80s and 90s. On this tour, he’s been playing with a classic jazz quintet, and the understated, lonely songs on his new record will benefit from the Paradise’s intimacy. 7 p.m. Tickets $35; 18+. Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave. (LN = Leon Neyfakh...
...hell-bent on resurrecting rock’n’roll. They strip their sound down to the essentials: wailing guitar licks, raucous vocals and crashing drums redolent of rock’s heyday in the 70s. Explicit lyrics might stave off mass appeal for Silvertide, but the rambunctious quintet out of northeastern Philadelphia strike that chord of mania and excess with rock fanatics. Tuesday, August 19 at 9:50 p.m. $6. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...
BRAHMS, BARTOK AND SAINT-SAENS. The Boston Chamber Music Society, which dates from 1983, is at its core an eight-person ensemble. Guest musicians enhance the orchestration as needed—this time for Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Bartók’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion and Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals. Since the Society is also celebrating its 20th anniversary year, it has promised for this performance a surprise mystery guest. Who could it be? Sunday, April 27, 7:30 p.m. Admission...
CHARLIE HUNTER QUINTET. The eight-string guitar innovator form Berkeley, California brings his brand of Latin and Rock influenced jazz to Cambridge. The band does not have a keyboard or bass because Hunter lays down the bass line, comps, and solos all at once! Wednesday, March 5 at 9 p.m. The House of Blues, 96 Winthrop...
...Tigers boast the most imposing top five in the country, with freshman sensation and intercollegiate No. 1 Yasser El-Halaby supported by seniors Will Evans, David Yik, Dan Rutherford and Eric Pearson, who comprise arguably the greatest class in Princeton history. The quintet won the US Squash Racquets Association five-man team championship earlier this year, while Evans was the 2002 intercollegiate runner-up and Yik the 2001 intercollegiate champion...