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...this album, Allen is heard accompanied by--and sometimes struggling with--the deafening racket of grand masters Ron Carter and Tony Williams on bass and drums, respectively. For some reason, the producer of Twenty One, Teo Macero (who produced all of the great Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk albums on Columbia) ,chose to have an incredibly bass-heavy mix, which, coupled with Williams's tooth-rattling cymbal crashes, threatens to drown out the subtleties of Allen's phrasing and unique harmonic conception. It is to Allen's credit that the clarity of her lines and the sharpness of her unceasing...
Allen's solos are direct, her lines concise. Although her playing is devoid of excess ornamentation, the flow of both rhythmic and melodic ideas is unceasing. Allen has masterfully incorporated the innovations of such challenging pianists as Thelonious Monk, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock. All three of these pianists share Allen's distinctly unsentimental aesthetic...
DIED. ARTHUR TAYLOR, 65; jazz drummer and bandleader; in New York City. Known for swinging "like a strong breeze," in the words of one critic, Taylor recorded albums with John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk. As the leader of his own group, Taylor's Wailers, he was a mentor to many younger musicians...
Like that of Miles Davis or Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor's music is the result of a very intense, powerful individual personality. As a man, Taylor dominates the people around him, whether in conversation or musical interaction. In an interview, he will inevitably take control of the proceedings out of the reporter's hands, as this reporter recently found...
John Paul can be moved to wrath -- and not just over theology. In 1985 he defrocked four Nicaraguan priests for not quitting the Sandinista government, including Minister of Culture Ernesto Cardenal, a Trappist monk. That same year the Pope, after returning from his second trip to Poland, was ired by an article in L'Osservatore Romano -- the semiofficial Vatican daily -- that criticized Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement. The article was signed by deputy editor Don Virgilio Levi. Dressed down by the Vatican's Under Secretary of State, Levi proposed to run a retraction. But the official pointed sternly...