Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't neglected you dance fans. If you're still around, check out the Expansions Dance Company, which will perform June 2, 3, 9, and 10. Under the direction of Consuelo Baraka, the program will feature dances in the style of blues, folk, jazz, and spiritual modern ballet. At the Agassiz Theatre, 8:00 all four nights; tickets at the door...
...Cecil Taylor Orgy begins on Thursday May 4 at 6 a.m.--an unfortunate time since the jazz pianist's five-odd fans at Harvard may all be asleep and the people who make a habit of getting up at six may not want to shatter their routine by listening to the sometimes abrasive music of one of the foremost innovators of modern jazz. (Later in the day might be a good time to get an introduction to Taylor's work...
...first like nothing more than a busy arrangement of abstract designs and bright colors. But, with a little imagination the viewer can make out forms that suggest radio towers, musical instruments and sound waves, and pretty soon, the whole painting begins to pulse with the rhythm of a jazz tune. Davis often incorporated his interest in jazz into his work, and he attracted the likes Duke Ellington and George Wettling to his exhibits as a result...
...Rolling Stones, Richie Havens and the Beatles used sitars for an exotic flair. Jazz musicians John McLaughlin and John Coltrane, attracted to Indian music's minor keys and improvisations, extracted aspects of its theory (quarter tones, complicated 17-beat rhythms, a constant drone) into their musical structures. The result is an innovative, unique music style that fuses Eastern and Western cultures...
Khan appreciates Western music--jazz, disco, opera--as long as it is unadulterated. His reactions to music are either emotional or intellectual. Bach intrigues him because his complicated fugues resemble Indian classical music in their repetition and variations on one theme. Maria Callas and Bartok are his favorites. "Bartok's compositions are so intricate, but like in Indian music he never uses more than ten notes at a time. Maria Callas--she is my type of lady. She does what she feels and doesn't play for others...