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...Uncle John’s Band, his third ECM release, is a welcome return to the flowing modernism and rocky bite that made him a go-to player for the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock earlier...
...Together with Charles Marowitz, he led the company’s Theatre of Cruelty season, staging Peter Weiss’s provocative Marat/Sade (1964) and the anti-Vietnam War piece US (1966)....
...Now Louisa Proske of Heartbeat Opera is evoking it lovingly in the Charles Engelhard Court of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art....
...In between, Clarke delivered the Charles Mingus ballad “Goodbye Porkpie Hat” with singing tones from bass guitar, and introduced a eulogy to John Coltrane with bowed double bass....
...() The evening featured guitar heavyweight John Scofield, whose keening tone, precise phrasing and subtle slurs were put in the service of a modern jazz set that took in Charlie Parker blues, a brace...
...We also resent the way Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Garner survived The Great Escape while poor old Dickie Attenborough and the other Brits got mown down....
...The headliner, the US guitarist John Scofield, was here focused on the by-ways of Americana, paring household songs down to an acid-etched essence....
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