Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...between $500 and $2,500 to take his case, so he returned to Vancouver. "If I had had the opportunity to do valid public service four years ago," he says, "I never would have left the country." On the other hand, John Barry, 22, a draft-dodging San Francisco musician, hired a lawyer and gave himself up to the same U.S. Attorney's office. Considered a hardship case because he supports his widowed mother, he was told that he would probably have to work for only six months...
...well along in childhood and already had a name: Franz Xaver. Wolfgang Jr. or just plain Franz? It was a dilemma that plagued the young Mozart most of his life (1791-1844). Having studied with such notables as Hummel and Salieri, he was a talented enough musician to make his piano debut at age 13. Yet Franz was not another Wolfgang and would not push himself. His mother Constanze, whose ambitious nature may be partly explained by the fact that her husband's death left her impoverished, came to resent her son's lackadaisical nature. "Although he gets...
Bonnie Raitt, another fine locally-produced musician, is playing with Mose Allison at the Music Inn in Lenox Saturday night. Raitt went to Radcliffe for a couple of years, left and learned how to play the blues, and is now a terrific singer and wailer. Allison is a cerebral and somewhat spacey jazzman, well-thought-of by the real cognoscenti...
...Ocean Boulevard-is free of the ostentatious virtuosity that sometimes disfigured his playing in the past. But the quicksilver runs and keyboard rampages that earned him the ironic nickname "Slow-hand" are still there. Sometimes Clapton turned his back to the audience to listen in turn to each musician in his excellent group-Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims at the keyboards, Drummer Jamie Oldaker, Guitarist George Terry and Singer Yvonne Elliman...
John Hammond, at the Performance Center this week, is a top-flight musician who dabbles with all sorts of material--lots of bluesy stuff, especially--and, for some reason, never seems to have hit it big. However, the real cognoscenti know he's good, and his show sounds definitely worth catching...