Though he didn't gussy up his music, he knew how to keep people engrossed all the same: A master of stride and boogie and bebop, he'd string his listeners along just by dancing around the theme, and then at just the right moment, he'd lower the boom, delivering a line so dazzlingly improbable that the common response was a gasp.

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Now "stripped of set, stories and the one-minute time frame" and performed to Schubert's String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor ("Death and the Maiden"), the reconstituted work here augmented by an extraneous smoke bomb and some pointless tossing around of apples is more of the same kind of group and individual activity now familiar from Mr. Jones.

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Things got so bad that by the end, we all wished he'd just said he was running out to the grocery store to get some string cheese and just never came back.

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