Word: musicians
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Inevitably, the synthesizer's growing popularity has prompted fears that live musicians may be on their way to technological obsolescence. Although the machine was intended as a tool for composers, its talent for mimicry has made it a cost-effective, ersatz orchestra. Classical musicians, who play a largely 18th and 19th century repertory, are unlikely ever to be cashiered, but others are not so lucky. Complains Violinist Paul Shure, a California studio musician: "Synthesizers have all but ruined string players in recordings." Five years ago, Don Butterfield, a New York City tubist, played about 150 television and radio commercials...
...event that took place this weekend, Jazz for Life raised $4000 for Oxfam. America a Boston based relief agency. The concert last Friday night featured both student and local talent and presented a variety of musical styles, ranging form the Din and Tonies to blind jazz pianist and street musician Jerry Mack...
...years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome and energizing presence on the stage and in their lives. He can find women, pot or a high-stakes poker game wherever they go. He reminds them all of their lost youths and awakens their unused parental instincts at the moment when most people are gratefully...
When asked why he chose to be a playwright, Shepard answers that he did not choose it. He started out as a musician in a rock band, Shepard explains, and stopped playing music when it became more of a business and less of an aristic enterprise. Shepard describes his own career life as if it, too, were an improvisational play. "I don't see it as any kind of evolution. They [his plays] are all experiments in the dark...
...high-flying horns of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Lee Konitz. Adapting them, molding them and memorably melding all these elements has got D'Rivera three solid Columbia albums, of which the most recent, Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand for session work, as well as a concert performer whose travels, starting last month at Mikell's in New York City, are keeping him hopping from Manhattan to Helsinki to Fort Worth. Home for a jazz musician, it is worth remembering, is the place...