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Died. Billie Goodson Pierce, 67, percussive, nimble-fingered jazz pianist and blues singer who once served briefly as Bessie Smith's accompanist and blossomed in the 1960s as co-leader, with her blind, horn-playing husband DeDe Pierce, of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, elderly but exuberant purveyors of classic New Orleans sound; of kidney and liver disease; in New Orleans...
...DeDe Pierce's trumpet leads the touring group, which takes its impulsive rhythm from Billie Pierce's constant piano figures and from the steady drumming provided by Cie Frazier on snare, cymbals, bass and woodblock. The music emphasizes collective improvisation, with Willie Humphrey harmonizing the upper voice on the clarinet and Big Jim Robinson filling in on trombone below, with the lowest harmony coming from Allan Jaffe--who runs Preservation Hall and manages the group--on bass horn. The earliest groups has other instruments, like banjo or string bass, and these can be heard on the groups' two most recent...
Billie and DeDe sing on all the blues and many of the other songs. Whenever they sing, they show how closely the early jazz instrumental sound modelled the voice of the jazz singer. The twists of melody and even the harmony are less important to the music than the setting of the one instrumental tone against another, while the intense rhythm carries the song forward to its abrupt...
Though the Vonnegutian prose is lost, it's not really missed. The slickly manipulated surface is compensated by accomplished achievements in all technical departments. Hill has hired the best in the business--editor Dede Allen, photographer Miroslav Ondricek, musician Glenn Gould, and they all do as well as can be done with craft that lacks original inspiration. And the simplification of the story, and its screen enactment by a talented ensemble, result in as hard-driving a simple-minded pacifist's statement as the novel...
...nearly 1,000 members of whom 90 are female. But women film editors have attained a disproportionate level of accomplishment. Among the top practitioners in the field are such women as Mili Bonsignori (Hunger in America, What If the Dream Comes True? for CBS), Thelma Schoonmaker (Woodstock) and Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde, Little...