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...past. But the quicksilver runs and keyboard rampages that earned him the ironic nickname "Slow-hand" are still there. Sometimes Clapton turned his back to the audience to listen in turn to each musician in his excellent group-Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims at the keyboards, Drummer Jamie Oldaker, Guitarist George Terry and Singer Yvonne Elliman...
...band arrangements of Harry James and the Latin style of Tito Puente. At Carnegie Hall, Pianist Keith Jarrett will spin forth some of the most elegant, technically proficient, classically tinted jazz since Art Tatum. On another night, Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton and Pianist Teddy Wilson will mix it up with Drummer Buddy Rich and Bassist Milt Hinton in what should be a vital remembrance of the swing...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
...actors can't be blamed for any of the show's weaknesses. Their performances are uniformly good despite the limited material the script affords them. Steve Sweet, as the depressive drummer, and James Howard Lawrence, as his manic, piano-playing opposite, are particularly fine...
...above the level of a skit at an expensive summer camp. One of the biggest laughs comes when the emcee says "Mahsahss'-ah-shits" for Massachusetts. Unfortunately he repeats it another two times. The slapstick is on the same level. A blind blues singer walks into a wall. A drummer bangs his head on a cymbal while taking a bow. A favorite laugh-getter is a kick in the balls during one of the many brawl scenes...