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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orientation chord followed by one bar of a cappella opens "Warm Love." You'd expect a children's song, each syllable enunciated in falsetto with proper childish awe. The band only enters between lines, to keep the time, with nuanced emphasis from the bass drum and guitar; two flutes linger through each line as backing vocals. Jackie DeShannon appears for the first chorus, and the song becomes a duet. More idealism, but a far cry from the bliss of "Starting a New Life"--because there's a distance involved, a musing quality absent from Morrison's music for years. Flutes...
...very least, Taylor, 52, has long since dispelled the notion that a jazz musician sleeps all day. The son of a Washington, D.C., dentist, he studied saxophone, guitar and drums as well as piano-until he discovered that "pretty girls always came and sat on the piano bench." He had his own combos in high school and college (Virginia State, where he majored in music), then headed for New York in 1943 (he was medically exempt from war service). Two days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers...
...capitalized upon this by exploiting rock's ability to suspend and heighten experience. Monterey Pop, Woodstock and Gimme Shelter use the camera to merely broadcast and reproduce the excitement generated by the music and the performers themselves. Rock and film sometimes mesh as neatly as bass and lead guitar. Gimme Shelter is at its best when the colored lights play over Jagger's body, and the Stones possess the stage. Offstage, without the protection of its excellent music, it grows tiresome...
...Tenderness" may be Simon's answer to Otis's "Try a Little Tenderness." Simon can't match Otis's power, so his approach is plaintive. The guitar obbligatos are from the era of the big band vocal. Allen Toussaint's horn arrangement echoes that era as well, particularly in a soft, mixed down solo saxophone. Paul Griffin's piano tickles with the right hand, fills chords and notes with the left. And the Dixie Hummingbirds are something else. Their oooh's are acapella oriented, rough and husky. The song finishes strongly, showcases them simultaneously, and the highpoint is a single...
...recognize the basic gospel call and response pattern between lead voice and background and develop a song around it. The song's emphasis on telling a story also echoes the gospel tradition of songwriting. The basic musical simplicity, a driving, simple arrangement consisting only of bass, drums and acoustic guitar perceives the essence of this music, in musical limitations originally necessary, but finally self-imposed. The song itself, while structured in the gospel style, echoes that style lyrically, incorporating a set of basically fundamentalist images, as well as use of explicitly religious words and phrases, such as "consecrated...