Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year's event was held primarily in the Palace of Congresses, a huge modern hall inside the Kremlin, presided over by an enormous portrait of Tchaikovsky. It drew 250 musicians from 37 countries, and all sessions were sold out weeks in advance. Said Rosen: "One of the things that sustains you in the competition is the love of the Russian public for the music. There is no apathy, no sleepiness; everyone concentrates on the musician...
Says Avant-Garde Musician Rivers: "It's not really in the tradition because the tradition is the solo voice. Fusion never goes anywhere." West Coast Jazz Pianist Paul Potyen thinks that most fusion albums have lost the sense of jazz's uniquely personal sounds and interactions. "The 'in' cuts are really slick; they're turning out musical TV dinners," he says...
Pianists Hancock and Corea defend their fusion music as a logical extension of the jazz musician's fascination with sound. In 1973, when jazz was suffering the financial blues, Hancock had the idea of using the synthesizer's weird, spacey sound not with the complex experimental music that he was then making but with funk and rhythm-and-blues. It turned into Head Hunters, made up of more conventional music that "a lot of people liked." Corea went roughly the same route. His recent Mad Hatter album, a lush blend of strings that borders on background music...
Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday Speaker Series--Ralph Richey, musician. Featuring flute and fortepiano. 4 p.m., Paine Hall. Free...
Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday Speaker Series--"Third Stream Music." Ran Blake, musician. 4 p.m., Paine Hall. Free...