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)