Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Auden that he wrote great poetry because he was not afraid to write a bad poem. Miles Davis is not afraid of anything; his style has gone through more changes than Richard Nixon's story on Watergate and has held up incomparably better. Still one of the leading jazz trumpeters after a long career, Miles has spawned, through his sidemen, a host of fine jazz groups. His latest transformation is on display all this week. Through Sunday, February 17 at Paul's Mall. Call 267-1300 for information...
...office and American moviegoers' affection typecast himself as the deposed King of a mythical country visiting the U.S. to promote an Atoms for Peace program. From the King's point of view, America's movies are shown to be drenched in sex and violence, its jazz too loud (though what is played is a decade out of date even by 1957 standards), its treatment of the famous crass and importunate...
With a pedigree like this, it takes a lot of chutzpah to call this Jazz-Rock. But it is: Rather than laying insipid horn charts over standard rock and giving it the name, rock's emphasis on rhythm has been injected into jazz. Enter Miles. And the rest, as they say, is history. The six ensembles that have resulted from Miles's own experiments form a mini-spectrum making up one end of a larger spectrum of all jazz. At the rock end of the small one lies The Mahavishnu Orchestra. Zawinul's Weather Report, from what little...
...shirt. No dashikis. Corea himself is dressed in late period St. Grottlesex. Solid introductions. Then seven-eight fingersnaps and "Hymn to the Seventh Galaxy" seems half over. "Hymn" is basic Return to Forever, a good chance to define the group's specifics. This music is thematic; unlike most jazz, there is not a great deal of room for improvisation. In concert the group walks a tight line, moving smoothly from theme to brief improvisation to transition to new theme...
BILL EVANS--Through Sun. Jan. 27 at Jazz Workshop. Call 267-1300 for info...