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Beautiful blues

On his 1968 album “Underground,” Thelonious Monk has an exquisite tune called “Ugly Beauty” that celebrates the artist and his penchant for the cooperative dichotomy of fluid space and dissonance. Kansas City blues guitarist Samantha Fish embodies this celebration as this beautiful young lady plays some ugly blues. Now before you come after me with […]

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Concert Review: Samantha Fish at the Dino

Only her hairdresser knows for sure, but last time I saw Kansas City blues guitarist Samantha Fish at the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival Big Tent, she was a blonde, and part of the Girls With Guitars three-woman ensemble. Wednesday night we all saw red… redhead, that is, as a now-auburn-tressed Fish was the only […]

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