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Fred Kaplan
Anat Again
Fred Kaplan  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  1 comments
I don’t want to write too much about any one musician, but I just got back from seeing clarinetist Anat Cohen’s quartet at the Village Vanguard, and I can’t resist. Her CD, Poetica, is one of the year’s fresh surprises—breezy, heady, and warm (see my blog of June 17)—but it’s a mere shadow of what she does live. She plays with a perfect clean tone and an insouciant virtuosity combined with a hip-swaying, eyes-rolling, wide-smiling swing—or with a breath-stopping melancholy, depending on the song.
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As We See It
"Where's the Real Magazine?" Part 2
John Atkinson  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  First Published: Feb 12, 2001  |  0 comments
"Jonathan Scull told me there'd be trouble when I decided to put the Denon AVR-4800 surround receiver on our December cover."
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Wes Phillips
The Rhythm of Life
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  0 comments
This clip has it all: Bob Fosse choreography, psychedelic Bach, frug-dancing zombie hippies, and Sammy Davis as a manic street preacher.

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Wes Phillips
Swarm Dynamics
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are. Now we're studying how that works.
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Wes Phillips
Working With Fishbones
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  1 comments
Courtney Scott fills us in on the life of an archeology undergraduate. It's not perzackly like Lara Croft or Indiana Jones.
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Wes Phillips
The Condor's Head
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 05, 2007  |  0 comments
Ferdinand Mount's new novel features the Marquis de Condorcet, Thomas Jefferson, the Duke and Duchess de la Rochefoucauld, Jefferson's secretary William Short, Sally Hemings, Lafayette, and Robespierre—seldom, according to Adam Thorpe, to their credit.
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Stephen Mejias
Well, Some Things Haven't Changed
Stephen Mejias  |  Jul 03, 2007  |  4 comments
What's amazing (and absolutely obvious, depending on how you look at it) is that I listen to music differently now. I mean, my teenage ears don't have very much in common with my soon-to-be 30 year old ears.
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Wes Phillips
Let Us Remember Happier Times
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 03, 2007  |  0 comments
When our city and our lives were graced by Beverly Sills.
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Wes Phillips
Bert Jansch, Guitar God
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 03, 2007  |  1 comments
I've been a Bert Jansch fan since the mid-sixties. Naturally, when he played my hometown recently, I was forced to be elsewhere.
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As We See ItHistorical
Wes Phillips Bids a (Temporary) Farewell
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 03, 2007  |  First Published: Mar 03, 1999  |  0 comments
The March 1999 issue of Stereophile is my last as the magazine's Equipment Reports Editor. I have accepted a job elsewhere in the industry, and, as a public relations consultant, will be actively promoting this wonderful hobby of ours in a different capacity.
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