Word: congas
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...Conga Line. From Guildhall, Elizabeth and Philip returned to the palace, riding this time in an open carriage. There she and her family appeared on the balcony and waved to the roaring crowd. During the rest of the week the Queen's activities were a bit more relaxed. She gave a dinner for the Commonwealth's representatives, cruised leisurely up the Thames and watched a massive display of fireworks. On Saturday the Queen, riding sidesaddle, closed the Jubilee with the Trooping of the Color ceremony on Horse Guards Parade...
...lower-middle-class neighborhood were decorated with portraits of the Queen and festooned with balloons and bunting. In the working class's East End, a banner proudly proclaimed JUBILEE STREET OK FOR LIZ, while in wealthy Kensington, a bobby-sporting two Union Jacks in his helmet-led a conga line of 300 residents, including four Tory M.P.s and a handful of diplomats...
...Rise Club has Joe Chambers through Saturday. With Chambers is Ray Mantilla on conga, Larry Young on organ and Jeremy Steig on flute. Rise has really been getting the good acts lately...
Brazil's music makes rich use of its mixed national heritage: samba, conga, bossa nova and salsa mingle with rock and jazz influences from European groups. But today, musicians like Ben or his equally popular and more jazz-oriented contemporary Milton Nascimento are being enjoyed by the gringos who used either to sneer at "torrid-fun-in-the-sun rnythms" or water-down tangos for lounge lizards...
Most of The Hissing of Summer Lawns, however, is not so clearly defined. Joni Mitchell's despair and cynicism about surburbia, her alluding images, are too easily missed--the words trip over each other and get lost. She rarely succeeds at complementing lyrics with music. The bouncy conga rhythms are often too swift a vehicle for the words; and the synthesizer-chorale approach she takes to the more philosophical poems only makes them pretentious or droning...