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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next Thursday moving in to Nickerson Field at Boston University are Grover Washington Jr., George Benson and Larry Coryell. Benson and Coryell will provide lots of good guitar music. Washington is a pretty good saxophone player to boot...
...Angeles country rock, he protests at being labeled simply a Los Angeles songwriter. His next album, he says, will include songs about a sojourn in Europe last year. Then too there is his classical composition. "I'm not about to make a concept album of Hamlet playing the guitar," he says. "I just want to work on my symphony in the early mornings." He has been experimenting with atonality and describes his symphony as being in the tradition of Berg and Bartok. Perhaps, when it is finished, it will be about three minutes long...
...irony and social import. The Convention, a group of comic actors, will open each show with irreverent improvisations on the day's events at the Garden. Up in Central Park, the Schaefer Music Festival offers excellent, inexpensive ($ 1.50-$3) outdoor entertainment. B.B. King, justly renowned for his blues-guitar virtuosity, will appear on July 12. Toots and the Maytals will raise the roof on the 16th with their joyously scruffy reggae music from Jamaica, followed on the 17th by the Earl Scruggs Revue, which purveys a pleasing blend of down-home country and easygoing rock...
...piano, now leads a group called Return to Forever, one of the first electronic jazz bands to reach a mass rock audience. Bassist Stanley Clarke, 25, trained in the classics, combines breathtaking technical acrobatics with Coltrane-style solos. British-born John McLaughlin, 34, plays America's most supercharged guitar, pouring out majestic chords at breakneck tempos in a hybrid concoction of hard rock, Indian music and 32-bar blues. Weather Report, a five-man combo, mixes improvisitory jazz techniques with rhythmically powerful rock, and comes out sounding like a 120-piece orchestra. Hancock, 36, who once played a lyrical jazz...
Died. Robert Leo (Bobby) Hackett, 61, American jazz virtuoso; of a heart attack; in West Chatham, Mass. Young Bobby left school in Providence, R.I., at 14 to play guitar gigs in local restaurants, and later moved on to the cornet, the trumpet and fame with Glenn Miller and other titans of the prewar Big Band era. More recently, Hackett had been paying his bills by performing anonymously in treacly mood-music albums released under Jackie Gleason's name, but his reputation seems secure -almost as hot, cool and craftsmanlike on the horn in pieces like String of Pearls...