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Although Basie employed talented arrangers in later years, many of his early hits, including One O'clock Jump and Jumpin 'at the Woodside, began as improvised "head arrangements." "We were fooling around at the Reno Club, and Basie was playing along in F," recalled one of his men. "He hollered at me that he was going to switch to D-flat and for me to 'set something.' I started playing that opening reed riff on alto. Hot Lips Page jumped in with the trumpet part without any trouble, and Dan Minor thought up the trombone part...
...more. Like Elvis Costello--a comparison which hounded him for years--Jackson has shown a depth and diversity of musical talent. He has experimented with old forms and concocted new ones. He marked his departure from pure New Wave with products like the reggae-in-spired Beat Crazy and Jumpin' Jive, a collection of '40s-style swing tunes. While bands like The Clash continue to scream and bang their ideas into their music, Jackson has gradually found mellower and musically richer ideas to get his message across...
...Hartford Civic Center and say something like, "Everybody ready? We're sorry for the delay. Welcome the greatest rock and roll band in the world, The Rolling Stones." And then even if Keith Richards doesn't churn into the opening chords of "Jumpin' Jack Flash," as he does when he opens the epic live album, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out, 17,000 people will get just what they came for, fast and with no frills...
...have children and all that, but I don't worry about it because I'm doing what I did before.... I only discovered this really by looking at other people in rock and roll.... It perpetuates your adolescence, for good or bad." Monday night they'll open with "Jumpin' Jack Flash," and it will be like nothing had ever changed...
...concerts-and at some shows they make up the majority of the audience-this tour is a way to ease into the slipstream of a myth, to check it out firsthand. For their elders, who were teen-agers when the Stones first sang Play with Fire and Satisfaction and Jumpin' Jack Flash back in the high '60s, it is a way-for some, now, the only way-to rejustify and perpetuate the myth. The Rolling Stones are living out, maybe stringing out, the legend, coasting, even capitalizing on it. But the foundation of the myth is the music...