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...banned in Japan. To the point where red barracuda jackets were becoming an epidemic. To the point where a cult of Dean emerged complete with teenagers who tried to contact his spirit and were convinced that somehow he'd come back. It was one of those weird flashes of fusion, where some source, regardless of its quality, taps into some undercurrent that everyone else has ignored. Witness Kerouac. Witness Kesey. Witness Presley...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Two American Actors | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

...immoderate Stones fan justifies his excitement over Tattoo You. The answer is that even if the Stones usually turn to 12-bar blues in the clinch and even if some of their better riffs make multiple appearances from record to record, they have managed to hold onto the strange fusion of ironic distance and electrifying enthusiasm that first fascinated listeners in the Sixties...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Black and Blue No More | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...Black and two whites, left their homes in the North to journey into America's belly. Full of hope, not sure they would come out alive, they wanted to change the world. But there was no place for their dreams underneath the sweltering Southern sun. Trapped amidst a fusion of heat and hate, their visions collided with the granite realities of the "Southern Way of Life...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Voting Rights, Found and Lost? | 5/22/1981 | See Source »

...kind of stylistic riskiness underpinned by sobriety. The music that has done the most to build the five-man European company into the world's most thriving jazz label ranges in style and quality from the vaulting improvisational rhapsodies of Keith Jarrett to the congenial jazz-rock fusion of Pat Metheny and the slick sketches of Chick Corea. Jarrett, Metheny and Corea account for most of the label's top ten albums. Jarrett's ravishingly beautiful The Köln Concert, released in 1975, has sold more than 750,000 copies-a strong showing for a double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds from a White Room | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...fine score. Two complex ballads with wonderful lyrics indeed are the highlights of the show. When the three female U.S.O. troupers (Dede Schmeiser, Carla Seidel and Susannah Rabb) sing "Here's to the Guys," or Hope and Alura sing "The G.I. Blues," the show takes on the magical fusion of perfect elements...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Armies of the Night | 4/24/1981 | See Source »

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