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...fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics and feathery flutter-tonguings that it begins to seem his tenor sax can do everything but fetch the morning paper...
Ethel Levey is the head-liner at Keith's this week in a round of humorous interpretation of old southern songs, as well as one or two more ambitious efforts. Her act was closely rivaled in the appreciation of the audience by Lynch and Zollar, ingenious hat manipulators, and the Weaver Brothers, excelling all others we have seen in extracting melody from a handsaw. Among others on the same bill were Bobby McLean in a skating act, Billy Glason, a noisy but good-humored comedian Elsa Ryan, in an act obviously designed to appeal to the politically dominant fifty percent...
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