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...bandmaster of the American mainstream. Like Jolson's, even Diamond's slickest movements seem sincere. The stuff may be corny, but it's never prefab. Neil leans into the Kol Nidre as if it were a sacred version of his sound-track anthem for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. One may question his taste, but not his enthusiasm or his exuberance. America, his up-tempo celebration of the immigrant glories of American life that opens and closes The Jazz Singer, is equal parts Emma Lazarus and Irving Berlin, and none the worse for it. It is too close...
...scientist who found the ultimate melody came to a sad end--Byrne and Eno take note. How far they will continue to search for it in the bush, like a musical Stanley and Livingston, will largely be determined by the reaction to this album and how well they can duplicate the funk/permanent wave fusion in concert. Byrne was able to toss aside his carefree/paranoid psycho image in one album and can abandon this turn just as easily. What will the '81 Talking Heads approach be: guitars, synthesizers or David Byrne beating out a polyrhythm on a hollowed...
Somewhere in the interstice between psychiatry, religion and philosophy lies the synthesis of a social ethic for the next generations. That "new" thought is but dimly seen, barely revealed even to the alchemists who litter lecture halls and speaker's platforms with the bird-droppings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the offal of Werner Erhard...
...maintain my sanity I must make music," singer and songwriter Livingston Taylor told an audience of nearly 100 last night in Quincy House's Junior Common Room...
Craig Coopersmith Livingston...