Word: percussionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Through The Ages Jehovah" is an experiment in repetition; Jenkins' ensemble plays a familiar, Gershwin-like melody many times with improvised embellishments and slight changes in inflection. Pianist Anthony Davis and percussionist Andrew Cyrille prove a precise, if a bit complacent, rhythm section, neither one stepping out to make a memorable statement...
Downstairs Pamela C.R. Jones, a percussionist with the Jerusalem Symphony, teaches a course on "Music for Dancers." Across campus in Memorial Hall, Leon Collins, the great '40s tap dancer, leads students in the study of his art. And Iris M. Fangar, a dance critic and director of the Harvard Summer Dance Center teaches two courses, "Writing for Dance," and "Dance History." And this is just a sampling of the variety the Harvard Summer Dance Program has to offer...
...Ensemble, but the group's musical philosophy was deeply influenced by the collective ideal of the AACM, and when they went to Europe in 1969 they adopted a name that more accurately suggests the active role each member takes in the AEC's music. With the addition of percussionist Don Moye in 1970, the AEC was complete. The music had reached a high level of development, and the European cultural community, traditionally more receptive to jazz and black artists than the U.S., greeted the band as something of a popular sensation. Then, in 1972, the Art Ensemble returned to America...
...avant-garde jazz is more accepted overseas than at home. Kahil El-Zabar, 25, percussionist and composer with A.A.C.M., recently played to bigger audiences in Rome than in Chicago. And when Rivers toured Europe, audiences numbered 10,000 to 15,000, compared with around 2,000 in America. Says...
...group used an electric piano and Caribbean conga-drum rhythms. Pianist McCoy Tyner, 39, worked over the keyboard with his great John Coltrane-inspired chords. But backing him up was a new, lush sound provided by a chorus from his latest recording group and a genie of a percussionist who appeared and disappeared, armed with a startling array of gourds and mallet-like instruments...