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...Blakey was the spark that lit up several small groups in the '50s. Here, reissued, is a particularly successful set, with one of the finest Blakey combos-Horace Silver on piano, Hank Mobley on tenor sax, Donald Byrd on trumpet and Doug Watkins on bass. They play hard-bop tunes (two of which are by now familiar Silver compositions), while Blakey drives them on with a flavoring of calypso or a tight break to emphasize the beat. On InfraRae and Hank's Symphony, his throbbing rolls and cymbal cadences are spotlighted in brief but impeccable solos...
...rest of America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want: hunger-distended bellies or filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below...
...which he approaches all his material, be it the affirmative I Believe, the despondent Lonesome Town, the hopeful I Got a Feeling, or the philosophical A Teenager's Romance. When his fortune is good in Travelin' Man or bad in Poor Little Fool, when he's successful in Be Bop or luckless in Stood Up, Rick's archetypal voice reveals no emotion --just the casual sneer of his autobiographical masterpiece, Teenage Idol...
...Bop-a-Lula, by Gene Vincent...
...bop-a-lulu...