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Pop Eye: The New Jazz

Richard Goldstein, The Village Voice, 22 June 1967

IT WAS A hot Sunday night in more ways than one that WOR-FM chose to celebrate its first anniversary. The Slavic legions were out along Second Avenue, and it was a different kind of music they were after ("when you go to Tompkins Square, wear some armor in your hair".). The streets were filled with that thick potato soup humidity the Lower East Side seems to specialize in. And in the lobby of the Village Theatre, where WOR had chosen to stage a major folk-rock concert for its listeners, it was wilting flowers, limp beads, and sopping sweatcircles.

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