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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERBIE HANCOCK, SPEAK LIKE A CHILD (Blue Note). This piano album is a fine montage of pastel moods. Delicately blended harmonic shades slide and merge in misty orchestrations of Speak and Goodbye to Childhood (with Thad Jones on flügelhorn, Peter Phillips on bass trombone and Jerry Dodgion on alto flute). In Riot, First Trip and Sorcerer, the piano skips along with mellow modal lines and bright blues splashes. Drummer Mickey Roker and Bassist Ron Carter are Hancock's hearty helpers...
...JAZZ CRUSADERS, LIGHTHOUSE '68 (Pacific Jazz). Pride of The Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., the Crusaders have plenty to say in this album and plenty of "chops" (technique) to say it with. Their musical message lies in today's mainstream -a blend of hard-rock rhythms, funky chords and uptempo bustling. Wayne Henderson is on trombone, Wilton Felder on tenor sax; the rhythm section includes Joe Sample's piano. They punch out Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo, move briskly on the winning Native Dancer and the fleeting Impressions. Their Eleanor Rigby is unusually muscular but, oddly enough, moves...
...pictures were the kind found in any family album. There was the radiant new mother sitting in bed in a prim peignoir, surrounded by her beaming kin. The photos, taken four years ago after the birth of Prince Edward, were of Queen Elizabeth II. When they appeared in France in Paris-Match, the royal household was scandalized. The Queen asked the British press to refrain from printing the "personal" snapshots, but the London Daily Express took advantage of its reciprocal arrangement with Paris-Match and printed them anyway. With that, the rival London Daily Mirror threatened to publish "a purloined...
...president of Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits...
...album even includes four toys to cut out and play with...