Word: horning
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...hottest alto sax around, Arthur Blythe synthesizes and consolidates the disparate approaches of his first two Columbia albums-the first experimental, following trails laid down by Ornette Coleman, the second closer to the Ellington tradition-and, using two separate combos, fuses them with the white hot heat of his horn. Illusions is a furious exercise in musical release. This man uses his sax like a blowtorch...
...path of the Bowie-Eno collaborations, which allowed Eno's synthesizers, loops and feedbacks to dictate the tone. Instead, the Heads have chosen their own tone, and the tone is funk. People knew things were up with the band when they toured this summer with Parliament-Funkadelic's horn section, and then it was announced that Byrne and Eno would release an album based on African tribal songs called My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts (whose release has since been blocked by legal difficulties...
...then do you get close to such a man? The objects in the exhibition are merely touchstones: a helmet he might have worn, the color of a shallow sea; a silver rhyton, or drinking horn, in the shape of a deer's head, from which he might have drunk; coins that his father had minted in 356 B.C., the year of his birth, commemorating Philip's entering a race horse in the Olympic Games (a sign of acceptance by the Greeks). Heads, Zeus; tails, a jockey. Alexander might have handled those coins...
...Horn is the new vocalist, quite a challenge in the wake of Anderson's high tenor and the band's ten-year reliance on his voice. Horn can't hit Anderson's heights, but his range is impressive, especially in the songs from Drama, the latest Yes release...
...medley of "Man in a White Car," from Drama, and the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," which drew absolutely no recognition from the audience. Perhaps Downes didn't realize the difference between FM and AM tunes in this country. Perhaps the audience didn't realize that Horn and Downes were the Buggles...