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Jazz: Very post-mod: very New York
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The Independent - London
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May 31, 1998
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Copyright informationCopyright 1998 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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"SO YOU all come from round here?", John Lurie asks the audience
at Salisbury Playhouse, in a transaction that could one day be used
for an academic paper on "Problems of Communication in Socio-
Linguistics". No one replies. "There's no need to be so blase," he
continues. "I mean, you live next to Stonehenge, right?" Still no
reply. "I live next to the World Trade Center," Lurie deadpans.
"But we know how that was constructed." Well I laughed, anyway.
Looking like a particularly degenerate bank manager in his baggy grey
suit, Lurie demonstrated the differences in social manners between
Wiltshire and the Lower East Side all too well. He also played the
saxophone and led his nine-piece band, ...
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