Sound Lounge, March 11 8/10 Amid the plague of deaths sweeping the musicians’ community this year comes a tale of survival against the odds. In 1986 drummer John Pochee formed a 10-piece band from the cream of our jazz musicians specifically to perform music composed by its members. On Friday…
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City Recital Hall, March 10 9/10 Always combustible, Diego El Cigala’s voice could suddenly flare up as if it had been doused with petrol. Fine-grained and rather smoky when soft, it sounded like it has been sand-blasted when suddenly unleashed in all its primal force. And of all the stylistic…