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...continuing disdain in which 20th century composers hold the sax is also due in part to its ascendancy in the 1920s as a leading voice of dance and jazz bands. (Critic Leonard Feather once wrote that the coat of arms for F. Scott Fitzgerald could have been two alto saxophones rampant on a field of cocktail shakers.) Even so, the sax had to overcome the prejudice of old-line jazz purists. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson once complained that it did not fit into the traditional New Orleans ensemble of trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "It just runs up and downstairs with...
Reed himself keeps prancing on his drum, preaching the glories of HooDoo culture. It is a welcome alternative to the bludgeoning lectures of LeRoi (Imamu Baraka) Jones. Or is it? The club is a quicker and more merciful weapon than the feather. -R.Z. Sheppard
...brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...
...centuries ago, George Washington addressed himself to the critical subject of public information. Citizens, he said, were "on a pivot, and the touch of a feather would turn them away ... Let us bind these people to us with a chain that can never be broken." The chain was the Post Office, providing intelligence to the most remote outposts...
...voices from the platform are suggesting: she is not ready to turn it all around, to start again. Yet here, among her own-kind? Yes, kind -she feels the sweep of mass identification, feels the sense of Tightness, shared protectiveness: we are all birds of a feather. This is the way, the path...