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Blowing in from Paris Twenty years ago, the Green Street Grill folks came out of the block with a mix of cutting-edge jazz and a hot Caribbean dinner menu. At the end of the month, they celebrate the anniversary of the club (as well as proprietor John Clifford’s 60th birthday) with a performance by one of the regulars from the club’s ’80s heyday. David Murray, who has been living in Paris for the past several years, will make a special trip in for the event. These days, he’s been riffing on the rhythms of Guadeloupe (his appearances at the Equinox Music Festival and the MFA last year were with the Gwo-Ka drum masters), and he’s promising a similar brew of Latin and Caribbean sounds on January 30 and 31. The Grill is at 280 Green Street in Central Square; call (617) 876-1655. Blowing in from Guyville For all the ruckus over indie-rock blow-job queen Liz Phair’s Matrix-produced attempt at mainstream stardom, Liz Phair (Capitol), it’s worth noting that she failed miserably at becoming the next Avril Lavigne. And though we’re a little bummed not to have been treated to her crooning a heavily bleeped version of "White Hot Cum" on the Casey Kasem countdown — where it could’ve fit perfectly next to, say, Lil Kim & 50 Cent’s "Magic Stick" — we’re still pretty psyched by what we got: a disc of raunchy, funny, and hummable modern-rock hits; a damn good song about the dating pratfalls of single-motherhood; the best song about using younger men for sex since the one that Demi forgot to write about Ashton; and, last but not least, the best cheesecake promo photos of Liz since she went topless back on Exile in Guyville. We’ve got another excuse to drag ’em out again now that Phair’s headed back to Avalon, 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, on March 28. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m.; call (617) 423-NEXT. Hail to the King Among its other distinctions, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra can boast Boston’s only African-American musical director, Isaiah Jackson. And he’ll be at the helm for a free concert the Pro Arte is putting on at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The program will include acclaimed baritone Robert Honeysucker narrating selections from Joseph Schwantner’s New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom, a work set to King’s speeches. Pro Arte will also perform Beethoven’s Coriolanus Overture and George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and the New England Spiritual Ensemble will sing. That’s on January 19 at 2 p.m., and no tickets are necessary. The Strand is at 542 Columbia Road in Dorchester; call (617) 282-8000. Hail to Mr. B PBS is airing kicking off the Balanchine Centennial on Wednesday with the two-hour tribute it first ran in 1984, and New York City Ballet’s winter season will be virtually all Balanchine all the time, but the Boston area will be staging its own salute at 7:30 p.m. on January 19 with "Balanchine: A Centennial Tribute" at Regis College’s Eleanor Casey Theater. Presented by the Massachusetts Youth Ballet, the evening will feature Melanie Atkins, Sabi Varga, and Sarah Eddery from Boston Ballet, Nikolaj Hübbe and Wendy Whelan from NYCB, and Sarah Van Patten and Moises Martin San Francisco Ballet in Apollo, Serenade, the pas de deux from Diamonds, and the Waltz of the Hours from Coppélia. There’ll also be a 6:30 pre-performance lecture by Merrill Ashley and Nancy Goldner and a post-performance reception. Regis College is in Weston, and tickets are $50 (or $100 for the patron package), to benefit the George Balanchine Foundation; call (508) 435-5600 or visit www.massyouthballet.org
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