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SURREALISTIC PILLOW (RCA Victor). Jefferson Airplane (i.e., Grace, Paul, Jorma, Jack, Spencer and Marty) takes a trip to the accompaniment of psychedelic clatter and barely audible chatter about blowin' their minds. White Rabbit ("One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small") is an eerie echo of Lewis Carroll's Alice, that mop-haired, pioneering freak-out and her oldtimey, mind-blowing Wonderland. The Airplane likes to blur and disconnect its musical phrases, creating the aural equivalent of double vision...
...there, in the past four months, singing unmelodious songs in a plain, unemotional, unmusical voice. His repertory is the same protest, parent-baiting message music that is now becoming passé in the States. One of his hits, La Guerre, sounds like a medley of Eve of Destruction and Blowin' in the Wind...
...motorcade swung on down South Rampart Street, and Louis Armstrong, 65, felt like doing a little swinging himself. "These are my old stomping grounds," graveled Satchmo. "Everybody was blowin' good stuff here when I was a kid." Louis came back to his home town on Louis Armstrong Day to play a benefit concert for the New Orleans Jazz Museum. "I used to stand on the corners and play until the cops came along and ran us away," recalled' Louis, fingering the cornet he first learned to toot 52 years ago at the old Waifs Home. Then he grinned...
...song can hit twice if it can hit once, Trini's first all-folk album consists mostly of other people's winners, such as Puff (the Magic Dragon), Crooked Little Man and We'll Sing in the Sunshine. He does not always listen to the words-Blowin' in the Wind sounds as exuberant as if those are greenbacks blowin', but why not? Trini has become accustomed to their flutter ever since he jammed the jukeboxes with If I had a Hammer two years...
...known to swing John Henry and We Shall Overcome-violently. Bud Shank and the Folkswingers, featuring Shank's cool flute and Joe Pass's warm guitar, stay close to the spirit of the ballads in their gentle improvisations on songs like This Land Is Your Land and Blowin' in the Wind...