Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marching in New Orleans parades. "To disturb people-at least what they mean by disturb-that's the whole point," says Sunny Murray, whose dense and relentless drumming is mind-riveting. For Coleman, it has nothing to do with conscious anger. "There's anger, but the musician is not directing it at the audience. It's anger directed at himself; he's playing about his own turmoil...
OVER the years, nearly every musician who has apprenticed with Bill Monroe has gone on to make a name for himself in the Blue Grass field. A partial list includes Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Don Reno, Mac Wiseman, Carter Stanley, Benny Martin, Sonny Osborne, Jimmy Martin. Clyde Moody, Jim Eanes, Gordon Terry. Stringbean and Chubby Wise. Shortly after Bill Monroe's music began to be heard other musicians saw the possibilities the music had and borrowed from it. The Stanley Brothers were the first group to do this, followed by Flatt and Scruggs and Reno and Smiley. Soon there were...
Bill Monroes adherents say that the real Blue Grass music has never been learned from anyone other than Bill Monroe. People who play with him can present the right sound, but they have to approach the music as Bill does. Some go so far as to claim that a musician's ability to play Blue Grass can be measured by the number of years he has been away from Bill Monroe. It would be a little easier for others to imitate his music if they had his famous Gibson P-5 mandolin; Bill bought it 25 years ago from...
...they want to get married it is entirely their own affair. They are old friends, and I know Eric very well." Mod Londoners may feel the honor is all Harlech's. A rock-magazine poll named Clapton, formerly of Cream and Blind Faith, the world's top musician...
...some Detroit fans call McLain, had a lot of explaining to do. According to an article in last week's SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, the star pitcher was one of the partners in a handbook operating out of a restaurant bar in Flint, Mich., in 1967. McLain, an accomplished musician, first became involved, says SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, when he was booked into the Shorthorn Steak House to play the organ. There he met one Jigs Gazell, a bookie who reportedly has connections with a local Syrian mob loosely allied with Detroit's Cosa Nostra. With get-rich-quick promises, Jigs reportedly...