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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HANK CRAWFORD MR BLUES (Atlantic). Crawford, who came to his own band from Ray Charles's, specializes in the blues, but he goes after them so vigorously that he turns them into outbursts of affirmation. His instrument for these determined attacks is usually the alto sax, although he can also operate very effectively with the piano. Half the pieces are his own, but most of the others, like Lonely Avenue, also burst with swinging good spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 17, 1967 | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Does the musician shape the instrument or the instrument the musician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...Angeles Psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson, an amateur violinist who has treated several prominent musicians, suggests that some clarinetists and flutists might think that they took up their instrument because it was the only one available in the high school band. More likely, it was because they are "oral" types, "great eaters and drinkers. A lot of them are people who have been extremely gratified, and therefore spoiled, and then deprived. The playing of their instrument is an attempt to make up for this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Having studied to be a soloist, he resents the ignominy of sawing away with the masses. He shares with other string players the conviction that there is something unfair about having devoted a lifetime to conquering his instrument when other musicians have mastered theirs in only a few years. High-strung, persnickety, he raises potted plants and an ulcer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orchestras: Psychic Symphony | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

When a century-old Manhattan building collapsed last month, killing five demolition workers and snarling midtown traffic for blocks, the N.Y. World Journal Tribune rerouted its delivery trucks by signaling them with an electronic paging device. Later in the same day, the N.Y. Times used a similar instrument to keep in touch with a photographer covering a New York Central train derailment in Harlem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Pocket Paging | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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