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Pianist Hancock, a Davis protege, followed the leader in 1973 with Head Hunters, another hit that was less jazz and more rock: it had fewer solos, a funky disco beat and the lusher sounds of a synthesizer. Weather Report, a well-respected group that includes Wayne Shorter on sax, has continued to work in the jazz-rock field; its latest album, Heavy Weather, which rides sophisticated solos over rock rhythms, has sold half a million copies. But fusion, as Davis' original album title foretold, is a dangerous brew. It was a short step to what many traditional jazzmen bitterly...
Mara, the rabbi's daughter, is an antic rebel. Bribed back to New York from Israel, where she distinguished herself by disco dancing and hobnobbing with the arty underground, she and her beloved Sudah, an Egyptian-Israeli artist cum hippie cum pacifist, spend days assembling highly unorthodox outfits for their Orthodox wedding. Mara's veil is an old tea-stained lace tablecloth that gets caught on her steel-rimmed glasses; Sudah is resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon...
WITH ALL THIS ATTENTION being thrown at me, I now say to myself, 'Well, I must be attractive--I mean, after all, ten million girls isn't doing too badly,'" says that "quotable" disco star...
...evening escapism Boston's most famous disco is Boston Boston (run by the same folks who run New York, New York, of course), which features all the loud, canned music and lavender-scented purple dust you could want. Of course, you've got to be dressed "properly" to hit Boston, Boston, and the admission price of $6.50 last time we checked. The bar is outrageously expensive, so you might want to check out some less flashy places...like King's Row in Boston--get off the subway at Kenmore Square at the same stop as Fenway Park. Now, King...
...hotel room, a meal, a cup of coffee or a bottle of mineral water to wash down the medicine. The dollar's weak buying power in most European countries, further sapped by inflation in many of the places on itineraries, makes even the disco life in Manhattan or Los Angeles seem cheap. The costliest popular countries for the dollar-bearing tourist are, in descending order, Switzerland, West Germany, France, Italy and England...