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Hampton Hawes is a fine pianist alone and he is easily worth the inflated price of admission at the Jazz Workshop. However, when featured with Denny Dias, guitarist from Steely Dan, he may not be. This is not to take away from Dias, but he certainly takes away from Hawes (Thursday through Sunday nights at 9, 11, and 1, with a 4:30 p.m. matinee on Sunday...
...college and eventually on to New York's Greenwich Village and Nashville. She was married, had a child, got divorced and returned home to Maryland, to live with her parents and raise her daughter. She was singing local dates there when, in 1971, she met singer-guitarist Gram Parsons...
American Context. One of the first to detect the trend to conservatism was James William Guercio, 29, a former Mothers of Invention guitarist turned millionaire moviemaker (Electra Glide in Blue). He manages Chicago and occasionally sits in on bass with the Beach Boys. Guercio brought the groups together. Garbed in a baggy football jersey bearing his last name and the numeral 1 and sitting in the living room of his $30,000 mobile home, Guercio tries to explain it all: "The American experience is found in Southern California and the streets of Chicago. These bands sing about youth, love...
Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...
George Benson: Bad Benson (CTI; $5.98). George Benson is in every way a superior guitarist to Beatle George Harrison, for example, or to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. Benson's uncluttered swinging blues set guitar-playing standards that quickly made his name known to every serious jazz buff. But after 20 years in an industry whose inflated lexicon calls every rock performer a star, Benson is still little recognized by the public. His style is romantic but ascetic - free of unnecessary electric trickery. Although he favors the slow tempi of Paul Desmond's Take Five...