Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McCoy Tyner stuff you will have to accord him a position much larger than the small niche of jazz master. Tyner has pioneered his own style of romantic piano, a sound that has come into its own within the last three years, and totally asserts itself in his latest album, Focal Point...
...especially liked the way the guy who played Paul sorta shook his hips around just like Paul used to do, y'know, just before the White Album, when he died and all...They just don't make 'em like they used to, though...
...first lengthy explanation by Richard Nixon to the American people would have considerable historical value. Thus we approached Frost last winter and arranged with him (though not for a fee) to have a TIME correspondent cover Operation Nixon. John Bryson, who took the pictures for our cover plus the album of color shots that accompanies the story, was the only still photographer allowed at the taping sessions. To John Stacks, our Washington news editor during the Watergate period, went the assignment of living for six weeks with the Frost staff in their Beverly Hills Hilton headquarters-looking at video tapes...
...after four years without a record release, Iggy has turned toward greater musical sophistication and less emphasis on his once-anarchistic style. Collaborating with David Bowie (a close friend whom he accompanied on Bowie's 1975 American tour), Iggy has produced The Idiot, an album that blends the monotonic deadpan style of punk rock with electronic innovation. The same persona haunts this recording--an alienated soul tormented by nightmares and melancholy, ears buzzing with the constant drone of sameness--but the addition of Bowie as the chief composer gives this desolate voice a richer resonance...
...achieve. A tinny xylophone riff wraps around the lead guitar in beautiful counterpoint, and the use of electronic media is sensitive and restrained. Carefully punctuated, many-layered, "China Girl" unfolds to a solo guitar fadeout which mimics the beginning theme, in the most cohesive track on the album. As the China Girl soothes him at the end of the song, I began to wonder if she had the secret that Iggy, in the dum dum daze of the Stooges, was looking for all along...