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...ba href=/dementia/a/b phrasing’s his own; if he resembles anyone at times, it’s a more jazz-inflected Marc Ribot.

In any case, his jaggedness is just the bitter coating of a sweet musical pill—he’s really a melodist at heart.

Salamon’s tone blends marvelously with Malaby’s robust tenor lines, and the two contribute memorable unison heads to “A Melody for Her” and “Does David Know He’s Not Brown?

”—just to name a couple.

“Empty Heart,” the CD opener, is, simply put, one of the best songs of the year, with a delicate, simple theme that Chet Baker (or any of his European ECM trumpet brethren) would love.

Helias threads the track with augustly deep, woody lines that sound eminently wise—both before, after and during his a cappella solo that is slowly joined by Malaby, then Rainey and Salamon.

Malaby and Salamon bite off the cagey theme of “A Melody for Her” with real gusto, and the group’s sudden, telepathic shift from a looser time into a straight 4/4 swing during Malaby’s solo emphatically undermines any claim to the band being negatively affected by underrehearsal.

Here and elsewhere, Salomon’s single-note, non-chordal lines act more like a horn than guitar, and, horn-like, he often lays out during Malaby’s solos.

“Silence of the Poets” is a strange blues with an incantatory, improvised drums/arco bass introduction and, later, a deep-emotion Malaby solo that’s buttressed by whining volume swells and feeback groans from the leader ove...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b and Alzheimer's disease, and a psychiatrist from University Medical Center in Tucson declared her mentally incompetent to stand trial.

While state law prohibits the prosecution of those found incompetent to stand trial, a second opinion is allowed, so Cochise County Superior Court Judge Wallace Hoggatt delayed Peleszak's competency hearing until prosecutors could do their own evaluation.

According to court records, a psychiatric evaluation presented by prosecutors agreed with the finding that Peleszak was unable to assist in her own defense due to her condition.

The judge dismissed the charge on Friday.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b and Alzheimer's disease, and a psychiatrist from the University Medical Center in Tucson declared her mentally incompetent to stand trial.

While state law prohibits the prosecution of those found incompetent to stand trial, a second opinion is allowed, so Cochise County Superior Court Judge Wallace Hoggatt delayed Peleszak's competency hearing until prosecutors could do their own evaluation.

According to court records, a psychiatric evaluation presented by prosecutors agreed with the finding that Peleszak was unable to assist in her own defense due to her condition.

The judge dismissed the charge on Friday.

Tucson lawyer appointed to new Pima judgeship TUCSON - Tucson attorney Gustavo Aragon Jr.

has been appointed to a newly created judgeship in Pima County Superior Court by Gov.

Janet Napolitano.

Aragon earned his law degree from the University of Arizona in 1977 and began his career as a Treasury agent with the Internal Revenue Service.

He also was a Pima County prosecutor between 1979-85 but most recently has been in private practice, specializing in personal-injury litigation Former rabbi sentenced in exploitation of children PRESCOTT - A former rabbi was sentenced to more than a dozen years in prison for viewing sexually explicit images of young children on his computer.

David Lipman, 56, received a 13 1/2-year sentence for one charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and lifetime probation for three counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor.

He also ha...