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Playing at Scullers Jazz Club might not have the cache of performing at the White House or beating Justin Bieber to win this year’s Grammy Award for Best New Artist. But that other stuff’s about celebrity. Esperanza Spalding’s rooted in jazz, regardless of how broad or glamorous the setting. Besides, fame lets you sell out six shows at Scullers, as the ex-Berklee student and professor did over the weekend… More>

Forty years after the Allman Brothers Band recorded its immortal live double album At Fillmore East and half of follow-up Eat a Peach at that New York venue, the group restaged both albums at the Orpheum Theatre this week.  Wednesday’s whole reading of Eat a Peach, on the heels of Tuesday’s Fillmore East recreation, provided one hell of a tribute… More>

Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas have fronted many an all-star combo, from their co-led SFJAZZ Collective to a range of separate projects that have given wings to Chris Potter and Esperanza Spalding among others. But Lovano and Douglas’ new quintet Sound Prints displayed magical synergy throughout its debut performance last night at Scullers, where the band returns tonight for two shows… More>

You can’t beat the Dropkick Murphys, but you can’t squeeze them into the Liberty Hotel to play the Boston Music Awards either. Schmoozers outweighed stars Sunday as the Celtic punk band snagged honors for Live Act and Artist of the Year while a range of upstarts poked above the fray to perform in the confusing environs of that classy hotel… More>

Look for Dean Wareham to dip into the songbook of his beloved former Boston band Galaxie 500 with partner Britta Phillips during Thursday’s TargetCancer benefit at Royale. All proceeds from the concert, which also features Grant-Lee Phillips and Will Dailey & the Rivals, go to TargetCancer, a Boston non-profit founded by the late Paul Poth that raises research funding and awareness for rare cancers… More>