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...said about the lessons he gives Carlos, his son by his second wife Emilia, 36. He is now two months past his third birthday, and Papa thinks "he's going to be very good. We practice one or two hours every day." Segovia, the world's master guitarist, has retired to Spain's Costa del Sol and stopped giving concerts: "How can I stomp the world again when all I want to do is be with...
Died. Eddie Condon, 67, jazz guitarist, bandleader and elder statesman of the Dixieland style, who was often called the father of the improvisational "Chicago school" of jazz; after a long bout with cancer; in Manhattan...
...Sonny Freeman and the Unusuals, because in the old days (like at the Regal), they just cooked. It's just that now B B has a band that's not only good, but it's big five horns, and piano augmenting the standard rhythm section with a rhythm guitarist as icing. Upshot? I've never heard him any better, and I've heard that repertoire numberless times. But if you listen closely, you can hear B B playing the same hybrid licks that Clapton and Bloomfield developed, and used to make themselves famous, with just enough humility left over...
...simplistic arrangement is plodding; guitarist John Platania's work is indecisive, given to noodling. (His work throughout the album is inconsistent, remarkable from a man responsible for the opening lick to "Domino," something that is in my Guitarists Hall of Fame next to the beginning of "Smoke on the Water.") The song's bitterness stands out, and it is a measure of the artist's bitterness that he is unable to articulate...
...last, a (not so bluesy) blues set united the jazz musicians of two generations. Although there were many dynamic individual performances, there was noticeable tension between some of the younger and older artists. For example, the solo by electric guitarist Larry Coryele was sensational, but it seemed as if he was being unintentionally repressed by the necessity of the standard traditional repertoire. Saxophonist Sonny Stitt was solid, and John Mayall, a man who appeals to both the early and later elements of jazz and blues, did a good job on vocals and harmonica...