Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard University Jazz Ensemble. Adams House dining room. 8, March 5, Free...
...version of Handel's Messiah came into being-but one wonders. Rarely has so much conceit, commercial cynicism, bad taste, musical ignorance and all-round incompetence been brought together within the grooves of a single LP. Written and arranged by Producer David Axelrod (Electric Prunes), conducted by the jazz world's Cannonball Adderley, the RCA Messiah has something to offend everyone. For lovers of vocal style, there is singing that would not pass muster in the 1950s-parody group Sha-Na-Na. For devotees of pure rock, there is numbingly dreary rhythm and somnolent guitar work. For connoisseurs...
John Hazlewood. In addition to being a rare sampling - for the rest of the world - of Australian rock, this is a surprisingly effective blend of hot licks and liturgy. Tom Davidson's rock group. Bakery, shows the influence of Britain's Traffic, Bruce Devenish's Jazz Ensemble that of several...
...jazz combos. Together they underline Dean Hazlewood's pronouncements with simple directness and, occasion ally, clever point...
...instance, about the invasion into Czechoslovakia. That is the price he pays for his freedom. The delivery of this, purposefully perhaps, was abrasive, softened somewhat by the chorus repeating selected lines. Then they burst into a Hair-like version of the poem. Heard were strains of rock, gospel and jazz--all thrown in for whatever measure the audience might think good. With a solid round of booing and scattered applause, intermission arrived...