Word: lps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...
...Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs...
Chick Corea: My Spanish Heart (Polydor, 2 LPs). Armando Anthony ("Chick") Corea ranks among the most adventurous and dexterous jazz pianist-composers. Since parting with Miles Davis in 1970, Corea has built an ever-increasing following, largely through the rock-oriented stylings of his group, Return to Forever. Here, Corea steps adroitly through an assortment of Spanish dance rhythms and folk tunes (with some Latin and African thrown in) and produces a tour de force that the pop-music lover should enjoy as much as the jazz buff...
...that are prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant changes in Carter's daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic phonograph with classical LPs. The background music plays all day. Clough types the musical program on a tidy series of yellow three-by-five cards and places them on the President's desk so that he can make mental notes of what he is hearing. Some of the music for this Wednesday: Bach...
Things are better now. Buffett, 30, belongs to a wave of laid-back Dixie performers, including Oklahoma-born James Talley and Tennessean Sid Selvidge, who are just now getting wide recognition. Buffett's seventh album, Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, is 20th among country LPs, and last month he packed off on tour as the opening act with the Eagles...