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...musician known for his capacity to stray from audience expectations, the concert can be called nothing short of an intensely pleasurable retrospective of Dylan’s greatest hits and most captivating recent pieces. The 14 song set, plus unforgettable encores of “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” combined a perfect balance of old and new Dylan, including five from the most recent album Love and Theft (2001), as well as recognizable classics such as “Forever Young?...
...acoustic version of “Sugar Baby” (a lesser known but fabulous song from Love and Theft) and the bluesy “Summer Days” (also of Love and Theft) were excellent closing songs for a set that was largely toned by the blues/rock orchestration of Dylan’s band. While it is enjoyable to hear Dylan sing older pieces like “Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again,” the extreme differentiation from the recorded versions can be jarring for some Dylanistas. The once-solo folk artist...
...selections from Love and Theft were undeniably the most forceful and most enthusiastic on Dylan’s part, but the final encore of “All Along the Watchtower” truly clinched an exceptional performance. In a song so popular and so-often played, there was not a hint of ennui in the delivery: it was a heart-stopping rendition of one of the greatest imaginative ballads of all time. Bob Dylan and his Band played the song, as they did most of their set, with the energy of a first-performance but the mastery of four...
...signature track. With Corea and Frank playing acoustic instruments, “Corday” was a nice change of pace. Following was the finale, “Long Passage.” With perfectly synced melodies, intricate rhythms, showy solos and transcendent shifts in feel, the song was a real crowd pleaser. The house roared and to overwhelming approval the band went into its encore, the classic Jimmy Health tune “CTA,” which the band covers on their Paint the World album. Starting with a massive drum solo, the tune developed into a superb...
...youth in Chelsea, Mass. (and still pronouncing his “a’s” as “ah’s”) he mentioned that he used to be part of Boston’s once vibrant jazz scene and even wrote a song about the Mystic River. It was from these beginnings that he started to play with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Miles Davis. Moving on to assemble many famed groups (including Circle, Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band and Origin) and having played with nearly every...