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...British blues singer sounds like a contradiction in terms, but U.S. professional music folk took to Cocker from the start. Among them was Herb Alpert, who issued Joe's first two LPs on his own A. & M. label. Now Cocker is a hotter draw than Alpert's own Tijuana Brass, the legendary combo that made millions blending Dixieland and mariachi. As the new Warner film Woodstock (see CINEMA) makes emphatically clear, Joe was one of the hits of last summer's historic Woodstock festival. In those days, working with an instrumental quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker...
...move was far from suicidal. Zappa already has enough material recorded to produce twelve more Mothers LPs. If they are like the first eight, that will mean words too dirty and music too complex to be played on the radio. No matter. It is plainly time to branch out further. Zappa is now president of the first underground rock conglomerate ever, Bizarre, Inc. It includes two record labels-Bizarre and Straight-as well as a management firm, a public relations agency, an advertising agency, several music-publishing companies, a film-production company and a book division that will start...
...echo chamber, multi-track recording and tape superimposition. "In this way," says Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, "the process of recording itself has become a means of composition as well as communication." Of course, none of this technical expertise would be possible without tape, on which all LPs are originally recorded. And there are those who see tape-especially video tape, with which the home listener may some day be able to see as well as hear an opera-as the LP of the future...
...hearing musical structures." That kind of knowing audience has made possible a new mode of composition in which snippets from, say, the Baroque, French Impressionism and Viennese post-Romanticism are pasted into surrealistic aural collages that would lose much of their point for anyone who had not heard LPs of the originals. Perhaps the outstanding example of that style is Berio's four-movement Sinfonia, a great critical success last fall when premiered by the New York Philharmonic (TIME, Oct. 18). This week Sinfonia comes out on a superbly engineered Columbia LP. Even though Berio conducted the premiere...
...Welsh-born Pop Singer Jones is the hottest entertainer in the U.S. Six of his nine LPs are on the Billboard chart, and the latest four have won gold records in the past two months. His weekly TV show on ABC is clobbering the competition as a summer rerun. For his two-week engagement at Manhattan's Copacabana in May, the lines began forming as early as 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The Flamingo paid him $280,000 for four weeks, and he paid them back by selling out every concert...