Word: musicalizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local 1814 in Brooklyn, Anthony Scotto, 45, has long been laden with two very different reputations. A personable and articulate man who favors $500 pinstripe suits and expensive Manhattan restaurants, Scotto has lectured at Harvard University on labor relations, serves as a trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and counts some of New York's most prominent politicians among his friends. But because of his occupational affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went...
...meaning popular country songs, but the folks who sing it certainly don't go around wearing backless sequined tunics or rhinestone shirts. That fazed Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Chai Zemin not at all as he journeyed down to Nashville to learn about American country music at the source. Chai was feted by the who all's y'all of country. Roy Acuff sang about the Wabash Cannonball. Minnie Pearl taught him square dancin'. Johnny Cash gave the Ambassador his own guitar. Glamorous Barbara Mandrell did an impromptu duet with the envoy on banjo. Chai toasted...
...among the few top-notch violinists that jazz has produced. Stephane Grappelli and Joe Venuti have been the instrument's two most successful improvisors, each using a fluid instrumental technique that can approach the offhand fluency of a saxophone or trumpet. Jenkins is the most violinistic violinist in improvised music; his effective use of double-stops (two notes bowed together), rapid bowing, and pizzicato techniques places him much closer to the classical violin tradition than any of his predecessors in jazz...
...Jenkins' music is strongly influenced by the innovations of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), a Chicago-based musician's collective of which he has been a member since 1965. The best-known exponents of AACM art are Anthony Braxton and the members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago. The music on Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America has more to do with the sophisticated conceptual experiments of Braxton than with the visceral, intuitive, and often theatrical approach of the Art Ensemble...
Leroy Jenkins' advanced experimentation with unusual instrumental pairings and contrasts, and his vanguard violin stylings are all represented on this well-produced, nicely annotated recording. This music is not for everyone, but experience has proved that today's esoterica can easily become tomorrow's essential background...