Word: combos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Egyptian student song, but owes much of its popularity to electricity. When he plays the song at nightclub engagements or recording sessions, onetime Electrician Azzam surrounds himself on the bandstand with an impressive bank of hi-fi equipment, places a microphone before each member of his five-man combo, whirls dials feverishly to doctor their output as it blends in the echo chamber, before a final electric impulse sends it shivering through the audience...
...wiring job for a pair of 200-room palaces belonging to Saudi Arabia's Premier Feisal. Azzam worked for a year, putting in everything from air conditioning to electric-eye doors, but had trouble collecting bills and ended up without a profit. Turning to music, he organized a combo and began picking up engagements around the Levant, hit it biggest in Lebanon with his "slow rocks," "fox rocks" and boleros...
Winner in the small-combo category was the Dots Trio from West Virginia's Fairmont State College, led by talented, pompadoured Music Major Tom Mustachio, 18, at the piano. The trio, which plays at college and fraternity dances and at small clubs ($40 a night) in the Fairmont area, offered cool jazz arrangements such as Misty and The Lady Is a Tramp, was rewarded with an engagement at Chicago's Blue Note...
...decided that Delia Porta was wrong in his elevation of the curve of the dome. It may have all kinds of effect on my work." Rome has also transformed Princeton-bred Musician John Eaton 24, who in his younger days barnstormed the U.S. with a jazz combo. Eaton has set John Donne's sonnets to music, launched a three-hour opera based on Sophocles' Trachiniae and Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus. "I hated this oriental city the first month," says he. "But an eclectic city has made the inner voices clearer. I've narrowed down to composing...
...trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky: "We live in a white society. Did you ever see black snow?" Another addict springs upstage smelling a fix. "Who said snow?" From time to time, a jazz combo breaks into sound, underscores the crying paralysis of the junkies' willing suspension of life...