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Jazz Week Catch the last weekend of “Jazz Week” and commemorate Duke Ellington’s birthday. Sax diva Grace Kelly will be playing at Borders in Back Bay. 511 Boylston St., Boston. Saturday, 7 p.m. Free! Rock On Do you like cheap concerts? The Casual Fiasco and The Brew are playing at Best of Boston’s Paradise Rock Club and Lounge. Rock on. 967-969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Friday. $10 Jazz it Up! Give your ears a rest after Third Eye Blind with jazz-latin fusion vocalist Marta Gomez at the nearby...
...bandleader of the 1920s, '30s and '40s who led her most recent band, the Dixie Belles, until she was in her 90s; in Burbank, Calif. As a jazz-obsessed high school student, she ignored her teachers' insistence that girls should stick to the violin and piano and took sax lessons from a local musician. Gilbert upped her national profile in 1937, when her all-girl band opened the Second Hollywood Swing Concert at Los Angeles' storied Palomar Ballroom, sharing billing with fellow bandleaders Benny Goodman and Louis Prima. A year later she wrote a famous, widely hailed response...
...Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas. The Crystals' propulsive version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" might be my favorite Christmas song ever. This is a meticulous Christmas album: you'll hear rarely used intros and second choruses to go along with the excellent sax solos and samplings of faux Mozart. Like his singers, Spector was still a kid in 1963; he turned 23 the day after Christmas. And he still had sensational work ahead ("River Deep Mountain High'). But the Wall of Sound never got better than this...
...with no musical training, he found himself swept into the world of glam-rock fame as a member of Roxy Music. Back then it was the feather boas, leopard-skin jacket and makeup that caught the eye, but what's lasted longer are Eno's abnormal squawks of processed sax and early synthesizer that punctuate the magnificent romp of tracks like Do the Strand. Many British fans never forgave Eno when he split from Roxy Music after just two albums and headed off into musical outer space. But in New York City they came to adore...
...Richard Nixon it was the Checkers Speech. For Bill Clinton it was a sunglasses-and-sax appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. Desperate political times call for desperate measures, and in the case of California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, that time is now. With only seven days until the election, he trails Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by as many as 18 points in the most recent polls...