Word: gigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prince may also lose his Candide, which is the kind of borderline show that may not reopen if the strike is long. The union's refusal to work while negotiating has postponed Paul Anka's two-week S.R.O. one-man gig on Broadway. He was paying his musicians five times the union rate. Adela Holzer hoped to open Scott Joplin's ragtime opera Treemonisha last week. Now it is in jeopardy, and so is its 37-member orchestra...
Died. Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, 46, lyrical, driving jazz saxophonist; of a heart attack, 25 days after suffering a paralyzing stroke on his way to a gig; in Gary, Ind. Son of a Florida musician who weaned him on jazz, Adderley arrived in New York in 1955 with a quintet that included his brother Nat on the cornet. First billed as the heir apparent to Altoist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Adderley became more eclectic as he forged his own musical identity with Miles Davis' group from 1957-59 and later with his own revived quintet. His playful bantering with audiences...
...slow numbers, to be very eclectic, and to write good material. They must be the worst songwriters of any good band around, and it's a shame. Still they're a good outdoor band, and though western Massachusetts isn't exactly the Mojave, this is Lanox's biggest gig of the summer. August 30th...
Stanton Davis and Ghetto Mysticism. Expect for a short fill-in gig a while back, this marks the first engagement at Boston's best jazz club for this locally based avant garde group. It's been long awaited. Trumpetist Davis leads a six man contingent with a free-wheeling, fluid style that fits in somewhere between the wanderings of freer "black music" and the excesses of more melodic (read electronic) music. Davis and Ghetto Mysticism have been nearly alone as proponents of free music in Boston, and anyone whose ears have been plugged against the softer wares of so-called...
...because not only has he weathered years and years of fruitless radical protest, and the anti-war movement almost from the beginning, but his vehicle--guitar-strumming folkiness--has an introverted, "I am pained" aspect that makes his mission doubly exhausting. Indeed, he didn't show up at a gig in Lenox last weekend, and reports have it that Ochs is highly difficult to get along with nowadays. Maybe it's worrying about the Dylan comparison (he makes it--nobody else does)--the political Ochs is a grand martyr. Anyway, I always found his songs too indulgent...