Word: piano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guitar produces the sounds of many other instruments: sometimes it is a percussion instrument rapping out the beat while the drums fly elsewhere as they often do, sometimes Beck sounds like John Handy blowing high-pitched squeals out of his sax, sometimes Beck's guitar sounds like a piano, a bell, and once, unforgettably, a wailing harp (on 'Shapes of things...
...QUESTION the value of such mimicry--might it not have been just as good and less pretentious to have actually used a piano, bells, etc. instead of reproducing them by guitar? The answer is of course that the electric guitar is to rock-blues music what the violin is to classical music--the supreme voice of the medium...
Truffaut solidified his reputation with two films that are still considered landmarks in modern cinema history. Shoot the Piano Player was both a sly, imitative tribute to the Warner Bros, shootem-ups of the '30s and the existential drama of a man (Charles Aznavour) who can no longer respond to life. Jules and Jim was a near-perfect evocation of Montparnassian fin de siecle life, informed with psychological observations of the '60s. A blend of saline tragedy and dulcet comedy, it reinforced the burgeoning reputation of Actress Jeanne Moreau...
...lives a lonely personal life-smoking nervously on long, solitary walks along the banks of the Isar River, draining bottle after bottle of beer while studying at night. But his relationship with his public is a happy affair, best summed up, perhaps, by Katie Spencer, a 23-year-old piano student from Cincinnati: "There is no other serious musician in the world today who has such a habit-forming effect-who automatically makes addicts. There is something that swings in his Bach." In Richter too, obviously...
...blues, the way was open for a whole cluster of ingredients to converge around an R & B core and form the potent, musical mix now known as soul?among them, in Critic Albert Goldman's words, "a racial ragbag of Delta blues, hillbilly strumming, gutbucket jazz, boogie-woogie piano, pop lyricism and storefront shouting...