NEW EDITION IS THE NEW TRADITION

Heading a new arena tour, this group from Boston are the new Temptations

I’m not sure any single group so embodies hip hop’s takeover of R&B more than New Edition. As pre-teens at a Roxbury, Boston talent show the group’s five members caught the eye of local singer/producer Maurice Starr, a shrewd man with few original musical ideas, an ear for imitation and tons of ambition. What Starr witnessed that night were a group of p…