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...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...
...Praise of Music, the Community Service Dept. of New England Conservatory will explore Black music and dance from its African origins to its present American flowering. Consuelo, formerly a dancer with Alvin Ailey, will make a special guest appearance along with percussionist Freddie Hubbard, and Lee Genesis. Genesis plays with Boston's own "Heat". Tickets are $3 and are available at the Jordan Hall Box Office. Funds raised will be used for the Community Service College's Scholarship Fund...
THESE LITTLE CONCERTS come out of nowhere. Steve Paxton, a member of the New York avant-garde dance circles for the last 15 years, has worked with a Boston friend for much of that, and so it happened that he got together with a local acquaintance, percussionist David Moss, for a recent concert at the King School on Putnam...
...year-old Winwood's most recent effort is Go, a strange and spacey album that combines elements from electronic music, jazz, classical music, reggae, salsa, and just the slightest touch of rock and roll. Recorded with Japanese avant-garde composer and percussionist Stomu Yamashta and former Santana guitarist Michael Shrieve. Go is an extraordinarily innovative work which demands more than casual listening. Yet the heavy emphasis on electronic music--the sounds of synthesizers and the electronic instrumental effects throughout--make listening a bizarre, somewhat alienating experience...
...fantasy. Into the shop came Ringo Starr, covered, as always, with hair. First he wanted his beard taken off, then his mustache. Then Ringo said, "Might as well keep goin'." When the deed was done-in Monaco, where Ringo now lives-the 36-year-old ex-Beatle percussionist was as hairless as a drum. The star was nervous at first, but he quickly found his baldness an advantage. "It's cooler, like," he explained. "This Riviera sun was goin' to me brain...