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...fact, the very rules of the game have changed, thanks to technology. The postwar transistor and video generations have grown up accepting the electronic media as legitimate sources of art. The late Pianist Glenn Gould was considered odd when he abandoned the concert hall for the recording studio, but to the rock generation there is little or no difference between stereo loudspeakers and a live performance. The first group of performing artists who have fully integrated technology into their acts have encountered listeners eager to celebrate their message...
...event was part of a three day tribute of concerts and talks planned by the North House Music Society and the house's non-resident music tutor Rodney Lister. A pianist and former student of Thomson, Lister has been planning the performances since last spring with the help of a volunteer committee...
...expatriate novelists, embraced Hollywood movies and dubbed their directors "auteurs." And when the pioneers of bebop pushed jazz away from melody and into the ionosphere of improvisation, French intellectuals were happy to welcome these black American outlaws to Paris after World War II. Bud Powell, the pathfinding bop pianist, settled there in the '50s, made friends and musical history and went a little crazy. Dexter Gordon, a crucial link in tenor-sax bop between Lester Young and John Coltrane, spent some time on the Left Bank as well. Now Gordon, 63, returns to play an American jazzman in Paris whose...
...music is the sound track for the movie of the mind," says English-born Rocker Eddie Jobson, formerly of Roxy Music and U.K. and now a leading New Age pianist and composer. "It is music that springs from a world culture," says Lucia Hwong, a Chinese American whose music turned up in the 1985 movie Year of the Dragon. Trying to define the style reduces Anne Robinson, a cofounder of the New Age record label Windham Hill, to "stringing words together that sound like an exotic disease identified by a German doctor. New acoustic classical jazz? New acoustic impressionistic music...
...grossed $25 million. In a hard-driving business, Windham Hill's success is anomalous, for the label is rarely heard on the radio, and it advertises only occasionally. Instead, it relies on word of mouth among its target audience of young white professionals. It must be doing something right: Pianist George Winston, perhaps the best known of its largely faceless roster, has been on Billboard's Top 40 jazz chart a total of 184 weeks with his album December, a user-friendly amalgam of Bach, Satie and Jazzman Keith Jarrett...