Word: accordionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...accordionist said yesterday the license will protect performers from the "hassle of policemen forcing them to move and relocate," but others argued that they should not have to pay the license fee because they perform a service to the city...
This month Cooder began an eight-week tour round the U.S. with his friend Randy Newman; after that, he will get down to serious work on his next album. The contents remain uncertain, but Cooder is currently fascinated by the work of a Tex-Mex accordionist named Flaco Jimenez. He has also just returned from a trip to Hawaii, where he and some Hawaiians spent two weeks making and taping some music of the islands -"not really antique stuff," he says, "just Hawaiian drinking-and-good-time songs from before the war, the kind of thing you never hear back...
...Manhattan-born son of a Viennese accordionist, Hamlisch as a boy was nicknamed "Fingers" because he avoided sports to guard his hands. He went to work at 19 as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway shows, beginning with Funny Girl in 1964. He squeezed in night school too, graduating cum laude from Queens College. In 1968, at a Broadway party, the pianist met Producer Sam Spiegel, who chatted about a film he was planning to make from John Cheever's short story The Swimmer. Three days later Hamlisch handed him the completed theme for the movie...
...watching Jean Pace (Brown's wife) smile like the girls in Vogue wish they could and dance like the priestesses in Aida definitely should. But the LP blesses the ear with her Brown Baby and Afro Blue. It also offers Oscar and a Brazilian wizard named Sivuca (pianist, accordionist, guitarist, world's funkiest falsetto) singing and playing a small treasury of other inter-American gems...