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Jukebox: Veterans LaVette, Burton took different routes to success
Soul vocalist, vibraphonist set for jazz festival
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Michael Hochanadel
Bettye LaVette and Gary Burton play the Freihofer’s Jazz Festival this weekend at Saratoga Performing Arts Center as rejuvenated elders. Now 63 and 66, respectively, both became stars while young, making very different kinds of music, but both fit comfortably in the festival lineup....
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