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Cecil Taylor's Silent Tongues stands out from the previous three records both because of its format (solo piano) and its recording date (it was recorded at last year's Montreux festival). The album provides a fair sample of what '60s avant-garde music is doing in the '70s as well as how a difference in format necessitates a difference in approach...
...town meeting" held in Briggs Cage to establish world priorities for the future ended yesterday on a note of optimism despite open criticism of its format and results by some participants...
...herself, but Wendy Waldman is her first major record. Her voice sounds like Mitchell's might if you threw a little yeast into it and aged it for a while. Her music is at a crossroads between country, blues and folk rock and her songs adhere to the popular format: two stanzas each followed by a refrain, a musical interlude, and then a final stanza with refrain. There's something about her music though, that goes beyond regularity something that singles her out as a possibly important singer, Right now she has flashes of potential but they're like lightning...
...Vinegar Puss (written mostly during the past five years) show Perelman at his second best. But this is usually the case in humor collections: the author is always made to look as if he is playing Can You Top This? with himself. Pieces that look good in the casual format of a weekly magazine are rudely upstaged by the hand ful that are very good...
...generations of Roman Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists, a catechism was a manual of questions and answers on doctrine that youngsters were expected to memorize. In a book billed as the first "ecumenical catechism" since the Reformation, the Q.-and-A. format and many of the old answers are missing. Adults, not children, have been its readers since it was published in West Germany and Switzerland two years...