Word: flamencos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never know what the next step will be," said former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, 50, describing his fling at flamenco dancing in Madrid. On a two-month tour abroad before plunging into his new job with a Manhattan law firm, Nixon squired his family around the Spanish landscape, then-gathering material for two Satevepost articles about international affairs-flew off to Barcelona for "a very pleasant interview" with Generalissimo Franco. At week's end the tourists were in Egypt for another round of business-with-pleasure, seeing Cairo, Aswan, Luxor, and President Nasser...
Rolf Cahn has arrived in Cambridge on his yearly pilgrimage reviving old arguments about all aspects of his music. Is he a good blues singer? is he a competent flamenco guitarist? is his guitar playing too mechanical...
...what is his music? It must be folk-oriented at least for he sings blues, ballads, Woodie Guthrie songs, flamenco and calypso. But Cahn really doesn't sing folk songs, and he doesn't really sing blues. In the true jazz sense, Cahn's music has become an extension of his own personality and his own unique approach to life, he must be classed as more of a jazz musician than a folk musician. Cahn sings everything with a German-Jewish accent which alienates many purists. But those who judge him in comparison with Eric Von Schmidt, Jack Elliott...
Saints Go Marching In. Grenadine gypsies taught him the primary skills of flamenco. Arabian Bedouins took him into their camps, listened to On Top of Old Smoky in a semitrance beneath the desert stars, and fed him sheep's eyeballs in glorious reward. He swallowed hard and fast...
...walked up to Chitra Lada Palace, took out his 100-year-old handmade guitar (picked up in London for $112) and said he wanted to entertain the King of Thailand. He was invited to tea, where a group of high-ranking officials were stiffly collected. He started with some flamenco. Queen Sirikit asked if he wouldn't play something from his own country, like Danny Boy. He played Danny Boy as if it were a New London dairy air. The Thais loosened up and then went crazy for John Henry and Springfield Mountain. King Bhumibol could contain himself...