Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glossy promotional hype surrounding the Boston Globe Jazz Festival has all but ignored the Festival's "Tribute to Bird, Coltrane and Mingus" concert this evening at Emmanuel Church. The program features pianistbandleader Jaki Byard, who must by this time be accustomed to such oversights. Byard's regular Wednesday night gig at Michael's with his Apollo Stompers band is one of Boston's best-kept secrets, and that's a shame--the Stompers are a young, growing group whose enthusiasm, tempered by Byard's experience and humor, makes their performances stimulating and very entertaining...
...back seat not only in the packaging of this release but also on the discs themselves. The album cover promises "The Complete Concert," and that is precisely what it delivers. That means minutes--yes, minutes--of applause on these records. Return to Forever was a tenpiece outfit on this gig, and on record the individual band members are introduced, with applause, often with testimonials of delight, not once but again and again. All this non-music presumably reinforces the spontaneous, "live" element of the performance--but the decision to include it in this finished product is puzzling, since the concert...
...LIZARD KING (as he dubbed himself) ended his career much the same way he started it, standing drunk in front of his large cult of admirers at a gig; they were endlessly patient. Each time he appeared on stage. Morrison tried some bizarre theatrics--which became more and more obscene as he aged--to test the limits of his messianic image--just how much could his lovers love him? And here, in 1970, he was at the height of his stagestar image--and of his alcoholism--broken down in the middle of a song, kind of crumpled...
...Peter's music is--it's just unique, you can't describe it, you'll have to hear it. And to symbolize his uniqueness, we're holding this gig at unique places around the country--you know, places you wouldn't expect to hold rock'n'roll promos," his starry-eyed press agent said from behind her intense lipstick and boots up to here...
...DIED. Gig Young, 60, handsome, smoothtongued actor whose portrayal of a cynical, whisky-voiced dance M.C. in They Shoot Horses, Don't They? earned him an Oscar in 1970; by his own hand, after apparently shooting and killing his fifth wife, Kim Schmidt, 31, three weeks after their marriage; in Manhattan. Typecast as a second leading man who never won the girl, Young was acclaimed for his roles in Come Fill the Cup (1951) and Teacher...