Richard Havers Thames & Hudson, $95 In its heyday the Blue Note jazz label was just like a great band: a fortuitous combination of disparate skills and personalities. Its founder, Alfred Lion, produced the albums, and his partner, Francis Wolff, took the moody, evocative photographs gracing covers designed by the…
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Ah, the concept album: the ultimate proof that rock got too big for its boots and needed punk to spit on it until it shrank back to size. The late ’60s and early ’70s was the concept album’s heyday, with Jethro Tull trumping the rest by releasing a 44-minute piece…
State Theatre, December 5 Critics beware: skewer Elaine Paige at your peril, especially if you suffer from insomnia. Your sleeplessness may be haunted by the memory of Memory on endless repeat. Such cruel revenge! It was, therefore, a relief that this concert was a vast improvement over Paige’s 2012 performance…