Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impassioned social commentary, as in "Who Are the Brain Police," to fifties rhythm and blues parodies, to lengthy explorations of the subconscious ("Help, I'm a Rock"). What made the early music exciting and "avant garde" was the peculiar synthesis of three-and four-beat rock, off-beat vocals, jazz and blues and dissonant, polyrhythmic musical phrases borrowed from 20th century classical composers like Varese, Stravinsky and Cage. In the 1960s, no American rock band could compete with Zappa and the Mothers in the complexity and sophistication of their music...
Their brethren in other major cities may still suffer from the abuse of frustrated passengers, but in Pittsburgh, bus drivers are being greeted by cheers and even occasional kisses. As part of an imaginative plan to jazz up its service, the Pittsburgh transit authority has set loose in the streets a bus known as the Wild Card. Passengers climbing aboard discover that the coin box is covered by a leather bag decorated with playing cards. The ride is on the house...
...incident--the workers playing a joke on an apprentice named Peter the Putrid Punk, or collecting on a girder to watch the hookers go by on Sixth Avenue. But the games are usually just buddies horsing around--not iron-workers--and they seem artificially imposed, stuck in to jazz up the plodding descriptions of the work...
...recognize Jeff Gardner's name unless you're in his Boston University graduate music class, but his own jazz creations or his refreshing Thelonius Monk interpretations would be confined to the afterhours keyboard if not for the Reflections showcase James provides for him tonight...
...musician to set the tone of the place. One of the classical pianists's plaintive pieces made a sin out of slamming a cup into its saucer, while a less sedate jazz pianist encouraged quiet voice-overs by banging out some irreverent jazz tunes...