Word: musicalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fans may be caught off guard by the direction of Jazz, an unexpected anthology of tunes from Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, even the great Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence. As the surprise wears off, though, and the rhythms become less remote, they will hear some of the loveliest, liveliest music in the air. Cooder, with band, gospel quartet and full orchestra, last week performed virtually the entire album at Carnegie Hall...
...album is a fine bit of syncopated genealogy, running past the sophisticated musical abstractions of Beiderbecke (Flashes, In a Mist) into the knife-edge humor of a minstrel-show song like Nobody and the surprising sleight-of-hand pride in a "coon song" like Shine. The music passes right through Jelly Roll...
Morton back to the roots: Caribbean-inflected jazz and gospel music orchestrated for a string and brass band format. These are just the sounds that the first New Or leans jazzmen might have heard when they picked up their instruments...
...alto sax of Harvey Pittel and the impeccable piano of Earl Hines to the mellow, foursquare harmonies of Bill Johnson, once lead singer of the Golden Gate Quartet, perhaps the greatest of all gospel groups. Cooder was going for what he calls "the power, the fleetness" of the old music. He got it fine. Listening to Jazz is a sensual, tonic experience in collective musical memory, a little like having a long closed door in your house blown open by a cool, gentle summer wind...
...with him on anyone." Buck Henry takes a more benevolent view: "Beatty is psychotic about the possibility of overlooking anything. If he could, he would be up in the projection booth of the theater showing his movie, pushing the projectionist aside, still trying to cut or add frames, humming music he might have forgotten to include in the sound track. 'Easygoing' is not a quality he has. You know how Presidents age in office? If Beatty were President, either he would be dead after the first year or the country would be dead, because his attention to detail is maniacal...