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...preparing to undercut the competition with a $10 digital record of Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra in hot pursuit of a Bartok concerto. Warner Bros. Records, Inc., will bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus the first major American record company to release a nonclassical digital album, one that proves digital will make everything sound better, whether it has sweep or whether it has soul...
...QUESTION Gordon poses today's listeners is--how much are your memories worth to you? For people who experienced rockabilly first- hand Gordon must seem at best a throwback, a rock-and-roll neanderthal. Such people would do better to dredge out their old bop records and bop to them than to Gordon's albums, modern engineering notwithstanding...
Whatever the fad, the Top 40 is territory that has not often been treated to the sound of well-groomed bop and is usually alien to lyrics of such well-tuned wit as these: "He was sittin' behind us down at the Pantages/ And whatever it is that he's got up his sleeve/ I hope it isn't contagious/ What's her name?/ Is that her there?/ Christ, I think he's even combed his hair!" For this song about the amours of Chuck E., and for a fine new album full of similar...
This battle-of-the-sexes takes place against the backdrop of a Chicago nightclub and jazzy be-bop syncopation. The era? When guys packed heaters and goils snapped chewing gum and were referred to as having "gams," instead of legs. People mispronounced words longer than three syllables. Gun molls abounded, and their boyfriends had special revolver pockets fitted into their suits...
...electric bass works beautifully, and Corea is literally all over the place--playing synthesizer, playing piano, stamping his feet with excitement. Appropriately, the encore is a Corea-Clarke duet; the chemistry between the two is obvious as they perform a free improvisation that is loosely based on the bop standard "On Green Dolphin Street...