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We're a little late to the jazz party, but the Beerklee BeanTown Jazz Festival kicked off on Friday. It continues tonight with Jose Ramos at Wally's on Mass Ave, and this week's schedule is jam-packed with jazz legends and newcomers. Shows run at Wally's, Cafe 939, Berklee Performance Center, and other Berklee-area locations. Highlights include the Branford Marsalis Quartet at the BPC on Wednesday and a free all-day jazz festival next Saturday at the corner of Mass Ave and Columbus. Check out the website for more info.

              

Bostonist made it to Mozart Park in Jamaica Plain last night in time to catch the second set by Orquesta Bacharengue, the fusion ensemble headed by Berklee faculty member Ricardo Monzón. The group fuses the Domincan styles of bachata and merengue for a unique, polyrhythmic dance music surgically designed to shake booties. The concert was part of Berklee's Tito Puente Latin Music Series, which continues next week in Somerville's O'Day Park. Also on hand were volunteers from the Hyde Park Task Force, who were offering folks everything from voter registration forms to applications to model clothes at the group's annual fashion show.

It's not too early to tell you about what we think is a great show this coming weekend: They Might Be Giants are coming to the Berklee Performance Center for not one, but two shows! At 3pm on Saturday, June 13th, They Might Be Giants will perform a family oriented matinee that will include plenty of tunes from their Grammy winning Here Come the 123s.

Berklee is well-known for mixing it up, and the school moves on from a music for film conference to a genre jumble at TT's tonight. The mixed-up melange features The Help, which "blends rock, pop, punk, funk, blues, and jazz into a sound purely its own"; Shea Rose, called "the black Rickie Lee Jones"; With Engines, a pop-folk hybrid; and (our favorite name) Black Fortress of Opium, soulful folk with female vox and electric guitars...

On Friday, Berklee hosted composers, filmmakers, and miscellaneous artistic types for a Music for Film networking event. Co-sponsored by Beanywood, the evening offered the opportunity to hear music from up-and-coming composers, as well as panel presentations from folks in the industry. Overall, it was an excellent opportunity to meet people dedicated to the pursuit of making music for films, and a chance for writers like us to get a glimpse behind the scenes of movies.

Tonight at 8:15 pm, $10, all ages

We’d always thought the CEOs of music corporations would look something like Cerberus, the three-headed dog: devouring artists, drinking up their creative talent, and vomiting mass-appeal. At Berklee last Friday, though, Terry McBride appeared as something slightly more than the complete opposite. McBride is the CEO and co-founder of the Nettwerk music group, the company responsible for breaking Coldplay and managing the Lilith Fair. But also for allowing hip-hop-phenom K-OS to release artist and fan mixes of his new album, and tour under a “pay-as-you-leave” model similar to how Radiohead released In Rainbows.

Ah, Lansdowne Street. The roar of rowdy bros, the click-clack of skank heels, the grate of Boston accents, the smell of stale vomit, the refrains of "OMG why didn't I wear my coat?" from girls in skimpy tops and short skirts. It's exactly the kind of place you'd expect to hear some authentic blues music. Or... not?

9pm, $9