Word: keyboards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guitar, bass, keyboard--mostly guitar. Some drums, too. But mostly guitar...
...limitless ease and bounty. Hintz, a 68-year-old quadriplegic, was paralyzed in a fall 12 years ago, but for the past three years he has been doing the birthday and holiday shopping for his large family on the computer, which he operates by poking the keyboard with a stick he holds in his mouth. He buys clothes from Lands' End online, CDs from CDnow and books from Amazon.com "It makes me feel independent," he explains...
...sits at the piano. He is a faucet, a river, a flood of music. His left hand pounds out sharp, staccato chords, and his right hand flies, hummingbird fast, up and down the keyboard. There is history here: the imaginative, intricate runs of Art Tatum, the restless romanticism of Bill Evans, and of course, the hot, insistent rhythms of Cuba. Valdes' set is frustratingly brief--he is exhausted from his travels--and he plays only one more tune. Afterward he is asked the name of his first number. He smiles and says, "Improvisacion...
...stands next to his keyboard, Leslieexplains how he creates arrangements for hissongs. He says the arrangements often come fromthe music he hears in his head, or byincorporating the music he hears in other songs...
...start with the bass line," he explains,fiddling with the keyboard until he finds theexact match...