Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bloch, who has been hailed for his musical virtuosity throughout the world, will perform in an afternoon concert with an esoteric selection of the work of Seriabin and Haydn. In an evening recital. Miss Artmenta Adams-whose recent New York debut brought rave reviews to the young Julliaird School pianist-will play the work of Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Swanson, and Prakofiev...
...music suddenly slashes at the eardrums. The musicians, dressed in dashikis or undershirts, are bent into their efforts, sweating, their faces expressionless. Their sounds are warm and swirling, then frenetic, the horns bleating, the drummer flailing, the pianist pouncing intently at the keyboard. The tune is unidentifiable, the melody shattered into ravaged fragments, the rhythms complex and seemingly .beyond grasp...
...bebop, jazz was wedded to the classics through the progressive jazz of Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others. It took on an increasingly formal, warmed-over character. At that moment, the need for the New Thing first stirred among future jazz movers like Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Pianist Cecil Taylor and Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane...
...struggle for freedom. "What does music mean?" asks Archie Shepp. "When you hear Debussy, don't you hear an era? Don't you hear an era when you listen to Stockhausen?" Is it possible to hear an era? If not, Horace Tapscott, a new-jazz pianist in Watts, has a simpler suggestion for the white world: "Think of us as people. Think of us as interpreters of a people...
...watching Jean Pace (Brown's wife) smile like the girls in Vogue wish they could and dance like the priestesses in Aida definitely should. But the LP blesses the ear with her Brown Baby and Afro Blue. It also offers Oscar and a Brazilian wizard named Sivuca (pianist, accordionist, guitarist, world's funkiest falsetto) singing and playing a small treasury of other inter-American gems...