In Brief

** 1/2 The Band, “Jericho,” Pyramid. Seventeen years after this great outfit called it quits, this quasi-reunion suggests that 60% of the Band is better than none. When the material is good, you hardly notice songwriter Robbie Robertson’s missing pen; when it’s not, even the still-imposing vocals of Rick Danko and Levon Helm and the instrumental wizardry of Garth Hudson can’t save the day.

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