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“Only once in a lifetime, and in this case, for our 300th year as a city, do we have the opportunity to see an historic compilation of the great artists and music that have been generated by our richly authentic culture. In this book, so expertly done, OffBeat has presented to the world and future
I view poetry as more than a literary genre. It's a worldview and a state of being that frames my daily experience in the supernal. I've consumed a lifetime keeping my senses peeled for authentic, manmade mysteries, especially in art and music. Music is my favorite hunting ground, and nowhere have I found mysteries as DNA-deep as the 59 takes of 29 songs recorded in only five days by Delta blues legend Robert Johnson (19111938).
NEWBURYPORT — The New Black Eagle Jazz Band performs Saturday at 7 p.m. while jazz vocalist Donna Byrne takes the stage Sunday at 2 p.m. as part of the Maudslay
We sat down with Lech Wierzynski, the frontman of the California Honeydrops—one of the most exciting groups around. Read our profile on the Oakland R&B band here.
The German saxophonist whose brash, tempestuous outpourings set an imposing standard for free improvisation, and helped define the terms for a postwar European avant-garde.