Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic recovery of Skip James; to backwoods Louisiana, for "a real country supper" with Robert Pete Williams; and to Memphis, for visits with Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Rich. Wherever possible, he lets the artist tell his own story. He wastes little time attempting to describe a musician's style, instead concentrating on tracing the man's influences. One begins to sense the intimacy of the circles in which bluesmen travel: young Johnny Shines journeying off with Robert Johnson: Howling Wolf learning to play harp from his brother-in-law Sonny Boy Williamson and later being discovered by Ike Turner...
...resources of 70 of the University's better vocalists and one of its finest young conductors. After hearing Adams' reading of the "St. Matthew Passion" last year in Sanders, Michael Steinberg pronounced him "outstandingly gifted." Not the least of these gifts is his ability to elicit from each musician in the group the best he or she can produce. Adams' prowess as a conductor, the caliber of the individual performers, and a varied repertoire, including Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude", Brahms Opus 104, Purcell's "Funeral Sentences", three Byrd motets, and works of Debussy, Sermisy, Vecchi and Lassus, promise...
...recitals of Peter and the Wolf from Bonn to Tanglewood, the piano concerts in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, her guest appearance on the Andy Williams show? Some say they are a vehicle for escaping from the Kennedy shadow. Although she is not a gifted professional musician, she does play very well, and her favorable reviews are a source of gratification. "She wants it for her own identity," Kathy Beatty agrees. Yet the yearning for privacy is there too. Asked for an adjective to describe herself recently, Joan thought for a moment and suggested, "Vulnerable. I guess that...
...Radcliffe, but had the good luck and good sense to drop out. She spent the past two years working her way from playing bars and clubs to getting second billing at major concert dates. Despite the eclectic approach of her first record. Bonnie is primarily a blues musician: what she has learned abut the blues, both technically and spiritually, from her close association with such brilliant musicians as Buddy Guy. Junior Wells, and Mississippi Fred McDowell, has helped her develop into one of the best white acoustic blues guitarists alive. Her instrumental work is never too flashy and serves mostly...
...very loose and funky. In order to capture these qualities on the album, she decided to avoid the hassle of the usual rushed New York studio scene. Instead, she rented a small studio in an abandoned summer camp in the country outside Minneapolis and invited some of her best musician friends to come along for a month of drinking, fishing and playing. What appears on the album must be a pretty accurate reflection of the mood of that month--dirty, drunk and digging...