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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only we could all have it that good," a Harvard employee and Cambridge resident who asked not to be identified said. She added that hearing about the mayor's back taxes was the "highlight...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Danehy's Unpaid Taxes Anger Residents | 3/6/1979 | See Source »

...started with We Got By, followed by Glow in 1976, a live album Look to the Rainbow in 1977 and most recently All Fly Home, the fourth in his series of introspective albums. Jarreau has a nice voice and the way in which he uses it is the highlight of each new recording...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: Two New Super Vocals | 2/22/1979 | See Source »

...American projects, Fang left for Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. There he inspected the Landsat photographs surveying natural resources and a solar-energy farm that can produce 400 kw of electricity. In Houston, he visited the Texas Medical Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Methodist Hospital. But the highlight of Fang's U.S. trip was Los Angeles. Fang was given a detailed tour of Lockheed's L-1011 assembly plant at nearby Palmdale and shown the company's closely guarded research laboratory at Rye Canyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Virtually Everything Needs to Be Done | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...failure of his records usually depends on the musicians he chooses and the selections he plays. The results here are uneven. Versions of flashy but vapid tunes from Musicmagic (1977) comprise the first two discs. The band is tight, but the intricate mini-fugues and pompous fanfares that highlight the horns still sound gratuitous. The vocal sections are disappointing; Chick's voice lines are difficult, and Gayle Moran has the training but not the panache to sing them convincingly (where O where is Flora Purim?). Bassist Stanley Clarke cannot sing well--and on this date he sounds like...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Lost In Eternity | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...next three sides highlight individual performances. Gayle Moran's rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine" falls flat--she should know enough to stay away from such a gutsy jazz singer's standard. Serenade features Joe Farrell's tenor sax, an undersung quantity if there ever was one. Stanley Clarke performs a lengthy acoustic bass solo that is more a technical coup than a creative improvisation. His sheer enthusiasm makes the cut listenable despite serious intonation problems. Corea begins the show's finale with a 17 minute piano solo. His playing is so damned interesting that he very nearly carries...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Lost In Eternity | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

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