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Montreal Jazz Festival Day 11: July 8, 2007
by John Kelman
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The final day of the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal is a free one (with the exception of the second night of the Buddy Guy/George Thorogood & The Destroyers show at Metropolis), with a series of shows taking place around the seven ...
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by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Rachid TahaDiwan 2Universal Music France2006 It is tempting to view Diwan 2 as a roots" album: there is a preponderance of covers of older material, and the instrumentation leans substantially less on distorted electric guitar than did Rachid Taha's last album, the phenomenal Tékitoi (Wrasse, 2004). As on that album, the musicians--notably guitarist Steve Hillage, mandolute player Hakim Hamadouche, percussionist Hossam Ramzy and the string ensemble--perform beautifully. Hillage's production and Taha's arrangements ...
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Michael Ricci
An old-school rock star headlined SummerStage in Central Park on Saturday afternoon.
Grinning and unshaven, he strutted around the stage, sang in a knowing growl and cued his band for extended, hard-grooving versions of songs using fuzz-toned guitar riffs over a dance beat.
Rachid Taha, the Algerian rock star, with his band at Central Park SummerStage on Saturday wore a leather fedora, then switched to a red cowboy hat. He dumped a bottle of water onto audience members -- redundant, ...
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