From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!wjh12!bb
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Bell Labs Blues
Article-I.D.: wjh12.169
Posted: Wed Feb 23 15:18:29 1983
Received: Thu Feb 24 06:02:52 1983

That is the title of a jazz composition I just heard on a college
radio jazz program (WERS, Boston, 88.9). They were playing a tape
of an excellent concert at the Berklee ('dats right, ucb) Performance
Center by Antigravity (Jazz Band).  The composer of (and lead on)
`Bell Labs Blues' is Phil Scarff, a fine saxophonist [also rumored to
do a little research at BTL Andover (Mass.)].

Aside from the novelty (`local scope') of the title of this piece,
which was described as " ... an out-bop form treated in a traditional
jazz style ... ", the group is well-worth looking forward to.
Several of their other pieces were West African-influenced.

In this concert, they were joined by several other fine musicians;
Antigravity usually performs as a sextet in the Cambridge-Boston
area.  [Club & concert dates can be had from Cambridge Community
Performances at (617) 876-4065.  CCP sounds like a neat cooperative
effort to promote local artists in a `rootsy' non-hype manner.]

I was very impressed, and intend to go see them perform SOON.
They have a date this Friday, Feb. 25 8pm, at the First Congregational
Church of Cambridge, at 11 Garden Street.  Should be a good opportunity
to hear some fine music in a comfy NON-club setting.
	Brent Byer (decvax!genradbo!wjh12!bb)