Word: blends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Through. The essence of jazz, Lloyd feels, is a delicate blend of "warmth of the heart and the cool of the head." The warmth he learned while nurturing his "primitive roots" in Memphis. The cool came later when he studied composition at the University of Southern California, steeping himself in Bartok, Stravinsky and the impression- ists by day, slipping off to play jam sessions by night. After earning a master's degree in 1961, he joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet and switched from alto to tenor sax because "it seemed to be the voice I was hearing...
...riding the champagne circuit, his audiences are as attentive as seers at a seance. But he still talks, talks, talks. Rewardingly so. In a performance at Carnegie Hall last week, on the first of a series of tours booked into virtually every major U.S. nightclub and concert hall, his blend of spiel and song was an unqualified success...
...seaport that the Brazilian government calls Salvador. The first of his three themes deals with the astonishing marriage of Corporal Martim-a cardsharp and famed capoeria* fighter-to Marialva, who is as beautiful as a saint in a procession but as dark and devious as Lilith. This story soon blends with one about Negro Massu and the christening of his blue-eyed son. There are problems here, since Ogun, the Voodoo god of iron, has been named godfather. The priest is puzzled by the throng crowding his church for the baptism, but it goes off well since everyone knows that...
...maker than a harpsichord to a piano. Also, the excessive pressure of modern fittings is causing cracks, so that we have an ever increasing number of played-out Strads. The only solution to this vandalism: restore the original fittings and make the instruments true baroque violins that will blend with the harpsichord instead of drowning...
Sharing Poverty. The festival's curious blend of saintliness and savagery, paganism and piety, is typical of the ancient, isolated Ethiopian Church, which has managed to keep Christianity alive in its corner of Africa for more than 1,500 years, despite the aggressive proselytizing of Islam. Most of its priests are uneducated and cannot understand the words of their exhausting liturgies, which are celebrated in a long-dead language called Geez. Although monks and nuns are bound to celibacy, the rule has frequently been ignored. The clergy share the poverty of the people, even though the church itself...