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...Silverchair but a total no-show when it comes to mind-blowing dance music. Last week’s domestic release of Since I Left You, one of the year’s finest records for sure, was practically invisible, considering the boatloads of critical hype and acclaim this sextet have been enjoying since the album first debuted a year ago. The Avalanches’ sound is uncompromising but utterly accessible, pure dance music that trainspotters, indie rockers and hip-hop heads can enjoy on the same level. With the group’s sheer ingenuity and universal appeal...
...sextet opened the concert by launching into Rollins' new calypso "Salvador," from his recently-released album This Is What I Do. Scott provided the first fireworks of the night with his dazzling, percussive piano solo (although his occasionally audible singing served as a distraction in this performance as well as at various points throughout the night). Scott and See-Yuen divided time between their primary instruments and kalimbas for the calypso "Global Warming," a tune which simultaneously reflected Rollins' environmental concerns as well as the African influence in Carribean and American music. Anderson proved a worthy front-line counterpart...
...pure nostalgia, often featuring performers like Tommy Steele, Des O'Connor and Fyvush Finkel, who, like much of their audience, have seen their best years but are still going strong. The ship's band plays classic Palm Court compositions from the romantic past. In the British-style pub, a sextet of middle-aged jazz musicians splendidly re-creates the New Orleans sound. Excerpts from Broadway and West End productions are scheduled to start in late May. "Where else," asks Scotsman Reg rhetorically, "can a wealthy senior citizen go on vacation, unaccompanied, in absolute security, surrounded by the best of service...
...sextet Entrain opened for Cliff. An odd mix of musicians from Martha's Vineyard, the band played an energetic and varied set, but never quite got the crowd going aside from a few loyal fans. The most colorful band member was an elderly man who dressed like some of my Grandpa's card game buddies, and looked like he belonged driving a tractor instead of laying down a ska line on the trombone. Entrain doesn't have that much of a reggae sound, except for some pseudo-Rastafarian moments (like their recent album title All is One) and their apparent...
DIED. ART FARMER, 71, bebop and ballad trumpeter; of cardiac arrest; in New York City. During a 50-year career, Farmer, who also played the fluegelhorn (and a hybrid called the flumpet), founded the mainstream jazz sextet Jazztet and played with Johnny Otis and Lionel Hampton...