Word: musician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CREAM: GOODBYE (Atco). This British trio produced a distinctive, complex, closely woven blanket of sound. Actually, each member of the group-Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker-is a highly individualistic musician, and only the centrifugal force of their hard-driving performances kept them together for nearly three years. Just before disbanding, Cream said goodbye with this album. It is the cream of their crop...
Black was the color of the evening. Never before had a White House dinner been so dominated by Negroes, and never before had a U.S. artist of the masses been so honored. "I voted against Nixon three times since 1960," said one black musician from California, "but after tonight, he could run for Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan...
...summer a young rock singer (Michael York) visits India searching for the new sound of the sitar. He pledges his fealty to a musician-mystic (Utpal Dutt) and becomes involved with a clattering entourage of fellow acolytes, musicians and the mandatory wide-eyed British bird (Rita Tushingham). Like Mia Farrow with the Maharishi, the singer finds that his lessons are exercises in disenchantment. The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims. He hints of asceticism and keeps two wives busy and jealous. He considers himself a brilliant musician -until his guru denounces his technique as commercial...
...musician, Williams is eclectic, spoofing and sponging from every bag. Classical Gas is, as he says, "part flamenco, part Flatt & Scruggs, part classical." It is written for six-and twelve-string guitars and a symphony orchestra of 37 pieces, but the result manages to preserve a certain purity. His Reading Matter is even plainer. Take, for example, his ode to the network censor, who, Williams writes...
Despite their relatively brief collaboration, the quartet displays a seasoned, settled style-almost as if it had been playing together for a decade. Its tone is unfailingly rich and clear; its mastery of the ensemble form is so complete that even when performing with as experienced a musician as Pianist Artur Rubinstein its relative youth as a quartet is not all apparent...