Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wayout side of traditional harmonic borders, yet their energetic improvisation never quite descends to pandemonium. The group's most piercingly effective exchanges between alto, trumpet, trombone and the rhythm sections take place on Conversation Point and Erdu. On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness...
ALBERT AYLER, NEW GRASS (impulse!). Alto Saxophonist Ayler uses a gospel-rock background and a group called The Soul Singers to help him get a mystical word across: "The music I bring to you is of a different dimension in my life, the message one of spiritual love, peace and understanding." The tension of his wavering whines and reedy growls is somewhat dispelled by the propelling, regular beat, making such tunes as New Generation and Everybody's Movin' an oddly felicitous blend of spiritual and material...
WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward give unduly serious attention to this somewhat bathetic tale of marital infidelity, set against the noisy background of auto racing. The Newmans are good to watch in just about anything, but this particular vehicle is badly in need of a dramatic tune...
Although it is advertised as a film about student unrest in Paris and Prague, A Matter of Days is hardly the thing to see for ideological inspiration. It is a quiet, sentimental little love story that happens to be set against a university background, a sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical...
...ENCHANTED DRUM, by Maria Aebersold, illustrated by Walter Grieder (Parents' Magazine Press; $4.50). A small boy with a magic drum finds fantastic adventure at a Swiss carnival. The background and pictures of the children in zany costumes and grotesque masks are sometimes dazzling, sometimes dizzying...