Word: jazz-rock
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Cobham has played with the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, a post-"Bitches' Brew" group that helped to influence the developing jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s. He has also played with Stanley Clarke on Clarke's "School Days," a very funky album in which Cobham enjoys setting forth basic funky rhythms and varying them, complicating them, creating a funk-avant-garde feel. Essentially, that is what Cobham plays; funk-avant-grade, jazz-rock. His album titles speak for themselves: "Funky Thide of Things," "Shabazz," "Spectrum...
Musically the album is creative and rewarding. Like Hejira, her last album, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter continues to move away from the tight jazz-rock style of The Hissing of Summer Lawns. Several of the extraordinary musicians who played on Hejira contribute to the new album, particularly bass player Jaco Pastorius of Weather Report and drummer John Guerin of the L.A. Express...
...mistake with Adam and Eve. While Eve thinks she was sent to earth to meet her mate. Adam thinks he was promised a maid. With such a beginning, an irresistibly slimy serpent, and a chorus of nine animals misnamed by Adam, complications of course, develop. Set to Ravenal's jazz-rock music, the sometimes ironic, often humorous Sin does not exactly tell an original story, but it certainly looks at an old problem in a new way. Performances are tonight and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 7 and 9 p.m. at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Free tickets...
...broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album) and has maintained a high standard of romanticism in jazz. His style is best when...
...more recent achievements include writing the soundtracks for such films as Ken Russell's The Devils, Altman's Images and Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth. In addition, Yamashta has toured with and composed pieces for the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Royal Ballet and a number of jazz-rock bands...