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  • The show featured a Japanese-influenced tune, a European tune and no end of blues and funky boogaloos, and wound up with an uproarious "I'll Be Seeing You" that fully captured the spirit of both Sonny Rollins and Monk.

    Reviving Sounds and Legends 2010

  • You aren't going to get peace by bombing people back to the stone age, or by inventing "Islamofascist" boogaloos to massacre by the score.

    Dove's Eye View: 2006

  • At the time a member of the Blue Note stable, he played with a wide variety of labelmates, his cool-soul style turning up in everything from the dense intellectualism of Andrew Hill to the rough-and-tumble boogaloos of Lee Morgan.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • At the time a member of the Blue Note stable, he played with a wide variety of labelmates, his cool-soul style turning up in everything from the dense intellectualism of Andrew Hill to the rough-and-tumble boogaloos of Lee Morgan.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • This weekend it was a parking lot but I heard this song, which begins with clapping and Rodriguez’s joyful piano – “I got a pocket full of money/Oh that’s nice/I’m gonna tear this town up” – and boogaloos its way to trumpets; a gift through the window from one un-air-conditioned beater to another.

    Living With Music: A Playlist by Samantha Peale - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • This weekend it was a parking lot but I heard this song, which begins with clapping and Rodriguez’s joyful piano – “I got a pocket full of money/Oh that’s nice/I’m gonna tear this town up” – and boogaloos its way to trumpets; a gift through the window from one un-air-conditioned beater to another.

    Living With Music: A Playlist by Samantha Peale - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Lighthead the feel of a variety show, with music breaking up the acts: "Adam's/dim boogaloo to birdsong/and what the bird boogaloos to.")

    PoetryFoundation.org 2010

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