In Brief

** 1/2 Leonard Cohen, “Cohen Live--Leonard Cohen in Concert,” Columbia. Cohen takes so long between albums that fans will welcome this release, despite the lack of new revelations and visuals (half the fun of a Cohen concert is seeing him play out the role of the sophisticated, beautiful loser). Neophytes, though, should be directed to the original studio albums containing these songs.

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