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BONNIE RAITT '70 had opened the show at 5 p.m., with her brand of tough chick blues. Bonnie plays fine guitar, and slide guitar, and would've been better off had she opened completely alone, instead of with her bassist. As it was she managed to give open support to a lot of her musical friends, who she introduced one by one through her set. Bonnie's music is summed up by a Sippie Wallace tune called "You Can Make Me Do Whatcha Wanna Do, But Ya Gotta Know How." It was her best effort for a crowd that...
...middle of it, bouncing time with one scarecrow leg, left hand inverted on his hip like an artist balancing before his easel. For Tumbling Dice, he strips off his denim jacket to reveal a sheer white jersey shirt that matches the clinging pants. And then Mick dances around Bassist Bill Wyman standing stiff and still in his new suit, sips on a Coors between choruses, trades vocal lines with Richard...
Disillusioned by the success of imitators like Led Zeppelin and Cream when they themselves could not achieve commercial success, the Jeff Beck Group dissolved. Lead singer Rod Stewart and bassist Ron Wood joined the Small Faces where they both became rich and famous, and pianist Nicky Hopkins took to hanging around the Rolling Stones, eventually joining the Quicksilver Messenger Service. Beck was invited to join the Vanilla Fudge but he never had a chance to accept the invitation. Early in 1969 he was involved in an auto accident that was to keep him inactive for almost three years...
...clear case of the same sort of show biz is another new work in the Jeffrey repertory, Alvin Ailey's The Mingus Dancers, based on a grouping of ponderously orchestrated pieces by fabled Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus. The work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract...
...attention with a blend of instrumental voices as tightly woven as Kenton at his best, and as much Kansas City freedom as Basie at his. Each member is a soloist. The bane has some 100 arrangements and plays expertly from them. But when people like Pianist Roland Hanna, Bassist Richard Davis and Saxophonist Eddie Daniels start mixing things up, it is anybody's guess when the printed music will be used again...