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...madness became wearying soon enough for Namo and I. Skin accustomed to the grey skies of Cambridge burns easily, and after a few successive nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...
...Milt, Milt," because Milt is so great. Milt Jackson, probably the foremost vibist in jazz today, got his start with the Dizzy Gillespie big band in the '40s. He was part of a rhythm section which included John Lewis on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums, and Ray Brown on bass. Clarke, Lewis, and Milt, with Percy Heath pickin' bass later went on to form the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). But, before the group acquired that famous name, it was called the Milt Jackson Quartet (still MJQ). Milt was its natural leader while Lewis provided the driving innovative musical compositional force...
With a powerhouse bass line that pushes and pulses, they have one of the biggest-grossing albums in history (partly because the Saturday Night Fever sound track is two records and costs twice as much as a single-unit album . . . but let the accountants quibble). Night Fever is the No. 1 single, and Stayin' Alive, which occupied that slot for four weeks, is now nestled comfortably under it in the No. 2 position...
...aura-detecting ability to a scientifically rigorous test. Weltha responded with a letter that avoided the challenge, and the debate has gathered velocity ever since: in private faculty discussions, in the columns of the Daily and the Des Moines Register and between state legislators. One lawmaker, State Senator Bass Van Gilst, noted indignantly that Weltha, in his reincarnation course, "seems to be teaching a pagan religion. To me, it's not the duty of land-grant colleges to pursue these things...
...losing clarity and focus. Jaffe, with the Boettcher architects, Hardy, Holzman, Pfeiffer Associates, has managed to create a lush, integral sound by using such devices as 106 acrylic "reflector" discs suspended from the ceiling and a huge vault below the stage. There are some minor, doubtless correctable difficulties. The bass is not quite rich enough. When Van Cliburn sat down on opening night to slam his way through his trademark concerto, Tchaikovsky's first, he was drowned out in one area of the hall whenever the orchestra joined in: his notes were blocked by the raised...