Word: concertize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including the classic "Members Don't Get Weary" on which he met pianist Stanley Cowell. He later teamed with Cowell and a few other musicians including drummer Jimmy Hopps, to form Music Inc. The group, which specializes in doing things new and differently, established its reputation on the European concert circuit. The strongest recording available during those sojourns, "Live at the Loosdrecht jazz festival" has Tolliver at his most unrestrained...
Clay and the Felkers, Richard Reeves and the Vandellas, Candy and the Blue Skies, Bob Grossman and the Wailer--they kept calling all afternoon. Ol' Rupe the Benificient passed out concert dates--and editorial positions on disco publications like they were going were going out of style...
...roll. Instead, it will probably put off her fans and cause undue mirth among audience members who know the difference between Paul Williams and Phil Spector. If Streisand and Peters condescend to the music, they graciously allow rock audiences the chance to cheer for true genius. A concert sequence, where the debuting Barbra brings a hostile rocker audience to their feet with the wonder of her funkiness, is a milestone of piquant absurdity, equivalent, perhaps, to having Kate Smith conquer Woodstock...
...once dominated the region's Republican Party to much the same extent as the Independent, Press-Telegram is accused of having controlled Long Beach. Furthermore, the I, P-T used its pages to criticize the Chandler family in the 1950s for trying to saddle Los Angeles with a concert hall that would carry the name of Dorothy Chandler but require public financing. (The plan was later altered to the I. P-T's satisfaction.) Was the Times getting even? Or was it trying to grab readers away from its Long Beach rival? Or was it simply reporting...
...show how much I care, I wore my hair," quipped long-playing Crooner Bing Crosby, 72, after taking the concert stage in New York City last week. Crosby, who last appeared on Broadway in 1931, began a two-week stint with Old Friend Rosemary Clooney, 48. Also on the program: Wife Kathryn, 43, and their three teen-age children. Though his locks may be thinner, the Groaner's baritone seemed as full as ever as he traipsed through almost 50 songs in the three-hour show. Afterward Crosby reminisced about the first time he played New York...