Music

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Orchestral Maneuvers

By Bethany Saltman

A profile of award-winning composer George Tsontakis.

Nightlife Highlights

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Handpicked by local scenemaker DJ Wavy Davy for your listening pleasure.

CD Review: Uncle Moon

By Harold Jacobs

Maybe you do want to see how the sausage is made, especially if the ingredients include strange bedfellows like Willie Nelson, the Butthole Surfers, Thelonious Monk, and Doris Day.

CD Review: Girl Howdy

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These women are western swing, honky-tonk, and rockabilly troubadours.

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CD Review: Cleghorn / Lawrence / Hart / Miller

By Mikhail Horowitz, Nina Shengold

Perhaps the thought of “jazz poetry” makes you run screaming. Chances are you’ll change your mind upon hearing Merge.

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Upstate Hoedown

By Ilyse Simon

Uncle Earl and Carrie Rodriguez bring an evening of prime Americana to Albany.

Continuous Classics

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Top chamber group CONTINUUM performs at Beacon’s Howland Cultural Center.

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Child's Play

By Jay Blotcher

Saxophonist Hayes Greenfield talks about his Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz program for children.