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Randy Weston and Alex Blake – Berkshire Museum – May 29, 2010

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Randy Weston, and the Modern Jazz Quartet, represent the everlasting legacy of the original Music Inn, which was conceived at the midpoint of the 20th century by Phil and Stephanie Barber to be a stimulating summer school in the country with a curriculum of what was most hip in the city.

More than half a century after singing on as a dishwasher near the Music Inn, Randy Weston was back in the Berkshires for a concert in Pittsfield, with Alex Blake on bass.

Dylan before market forces…

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Article updated July 2, 2020 by Dave Read

Whithin two years of arriving in New York, Bob Dylan was making works of aural impressionism, for which there was no market. By the time money caught up with aural impressionism, it was long gone, like a turkey through the corn, ready to rock out loud, fucking loud.

These songs are so complete, so whole, they leave nothing out nor bear any dross, I remain stunned that the general public and their chief taste-makers kept dunning Dylan for moving along, for growing. Why would he loiter after completion of a project?

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