Word: guitar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like the softer jazz (some don't even like to consider it jazz) then you'll probably go to see Kenny Burrell playing the guitar at the Jazz Workshop. He'll be there through the third...
...roll in the '50s. Sometimes called rockabilly, it celebrates booze, gambling, fighting, steppin' out, temptation and, like all country music, love. Honkin' is the word for having a good time. In the olden days the distinctive instrumental sound of honky-tonk was tinny guitar and pianoplunk. Today the new rockabilly is a country-and-western/rhythm-and-blues mix, and its dominant sound is a heavily thudding rock bass...
...music of the Trammps is as snazzily tailored. The intense pulsating play of the drums lights the choreographic fire. The distinctive sound of the group is supplied by its jazzy, hard-chugging trumpet and saxophone, soaring guitar solos and sweet, soulful male vocals. "If we can't get you on your feet, we give up," says Singer-Drummer Earl Young, 37, leader and founder of the group. Such is the popularity of the Trammps that they now perform 340 gigs a year. With added income from their hit records-their Atlantic album Where the Happy People...
This time, with The Band's lead guitar ist, Robbie Robertson, acting as producer and arranger, the setting is different...
...seems when Jarreau fills in the melody with vocal imitations of instruments. He can even accompany himself, crooning the words of a sleepy ballad while making rhythmic clicks deep in his throat to provide a percussive counterpoint. Jarreau's vocal antics on this LP are confined to a guitar (Fire and Rain), flute (Glow) and bass (Hold On). But Jarreau is no mere sound effects man. His husky tenor is agile and warmly appealing...