Word: instrumentalized
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...have to do this. But if you do it, you need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with the stringed Indian instrument and who was responsible for it becoming known in the West. The legendary Ravi, now 82, has cut back on his concerts, but he predicts that his 21-year-old daughter is on the way to building a reputation that will someday eclipse his. "Anoushka has so much more than I had," he says...
...didn't sing or play an instrument; he often left session supervision to his assistant Jack Clement, an actual musician and songwriter. But Phillips did have an ear. He could hear the brilliance in a raw musician. (Sam liked raw; it was what made him rock's first impresario.) He could also hear what wasn't there but could be: what a performer might accomplish if given full freedom in the studio...
...case. And Jerry Lee would be the definitive piano rocker in part because he was, in the music's infancy, one of its last. (The saxophone, primal ax of early rock, also went nearly extinct.) He worked under another disadvantage: A pianist, unlike a guitarist, couldn't take his instrument to a gig; at least back then he didn't. Janes ascribes some of Lewis' extreme behavior on the road to his annoyance at being given "some pretty bad pianos to play... A lot of the wild stuff he did on piano would be out of frustration because they...
...Missile Man" for his pivotal role in the country's successful rocket and satellite programs, and also renowned for supervising India's 1998 nuclear weapons tests, as President of India; in New Delhi. Aside from an avid interest in Indian culture-he plays the veena, a traditional Indian instrument, and is an authority on the Bhagavad Gita-he's also dedicated to making India a major military power. "Our neighbors have nuclear weapons," he has said. "Do you want us to be invaded?" The Indian presidency is a largely ceremonial position...
Davis isn't a monk, but his music requires monastic focus. To make his trippy new art-rock album, The Private Press (MCA), he spent 15 months alone in his California basement trying to match the unmatchable edges on thousands of vocal, drum and instrumental samples, and then turn them into something beautiful. "Whenever I hit a wall," says Davis, "part of me always wishes I knew somebody who played bass, so that I could just call them up and have them come in and bail me out with a new riff to bridge things together. But that...