Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earth Opera's music is patterned and sibilant, propelled by staccato bursts of notes--and saxophone duets, drum rallies etc. each in turn play this refresher role. The songs range from wistful reminiscences to socio-political challenges. Above all, though, Earth Opera has the Rock Presence...
Divorced. Nancy Kwan, 29, won-ton-sized (34-21-34) Eurasian beauty who starred in Hollywood's The World of Suzie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and Austrian Hotel Owner Peter Pock, 28; after six years of marriage, one child; in Innsbruck...
...earlier philosophy. It's only the sound that's changed from big-city to country. About this being an Okie record: there are three ways Dylan has made the sound different. 1) The music; he's cut out Mike Bloomfield and the electric guitars, and put a drum and bass beat through the whole record that makes all the sound vaguely similar. 2) The language: he puts his songs in the country idiom (instead of the hip) by using a lot of twisted cliches, saying "whom" a lot instead of "who," and throwing awe-struck interjections to "the Lord" into...
...never loses its quirky cool. Always listening intently to his direction are wizard apprentices, sorcerers in their own right. Tenorman Wayne Shorter composed four tunes on the album, notably the tense and shadowy Prince of Darkness. Drummer Tony Williams contributes a mysterious ballad as well as his inspired, erratic drum effects. Bassist Ron Carter lays the undertone for Pianist Herbie Hancock's inimitable brush strokes of color, while Miles quavers the quintessential, kaleidoscopic themes...
...critics and professionals alike was the symphony's bold self-assurance, its thoroughly contemporary sound and free use of serial techniques, its lack of conscious imitation-even though it does contain a few friendly pokes at Mahler and Messiaen, "who," says the youngster, "use the cymbal, bass and drum in a vulgar...