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Album Review

Graham Parker: The Up Escalator - 40th Anniversary Edition

Read "The Up Escalator - 40th Anniversary Edition" reviewed by Doug Collette


It might well be an exercise in futility to find a more potent transitional album than Graham Parker's The Up Escalator. At least that's what The 40th Anniversary Edition suggests, and in no uncertain terms. Why else open the album with a track of deserved braggadocio titled “No Holding Back" or close it with that sentiment brought to life on the crackling live takes of the record's two most unforgiving numbers, “Empty Live" and “Stupefaction," included as bonus material?

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Danny Federici, 58; Keyboardist Was an Original Member of E Street Band

Danny Federici, 58; Keyboardist Was an Original Member of E Street Band

Source: All About Jazz

Keyboardist Danny Federici, a low-profile but essential and original member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died Thursday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three-year battle with melanoma, according to a statement released by Springsteen's publicist. He was 58.

“Danny and I worked together for 40 years," Springsteen said in the statement. “He was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure, natural musician. I loved him very much. We grew up together."

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