Word: combo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pearl (Columbia) is not just her best LP, but in all probability the best ever recorded by a white female blues singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance are not just the property...
...contradiction in terms, but U.S. professional music folk took to Cocker from the start. Among them was Herb Alpert, who issued Joe's first two LPs on his own A. & M. label. Now Cocker is a hotter draw than Alpert's own Tijuana Brass, the legendary combo that made millions blending Dixieland and mariachi. As the new Warner film Woodstock (see CINEMA) makes emphatically clear, Joe was one of the hits of last summer's historic Woodstock festival. In those days, working with an instrumental quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker had the habit of taking light...
Determined to snare its share of Puerto Rico's bountiful tourist trade, the new nightclub El Cortijo opened the season in San Juan with 20 flamenco dancers, twelve waiters and two dance combos. Last week, with more than half of its 185 seats empty each night, El Cortijo was down to eight dancers, six waiters and one combo. It also dropped its $5 cover charge...
...world could only savor the prospect. After last week's bout, Frazier allowed that he was going to take his 30% share of the gate, which should come to $300,000 or so, and go to Las Vegas to debut his nightclub singing act with a nine-piece combo called the Knockouts. Then, he said, "I'm gonna wait until that other fella can fight me. I'm gonna sing rock 'n' roll until that Muhammad Ali or Cassius Clay or whatever his name is can fight me." Of such stuff are dreams-and ghosts...
After a few minutes, the crowd is seated and the combo stops. An officer from Theta Chi-the Tufts Fraternity that brought Masters to Boston-makes an introduction, the band swings into the theme from "The Johnny Carson Show," and he comes in. He is wearing a royal blue dinner jacket, black cummerbund and tie, dazzling white shirt. One look and you know-Mr. Show Business...