Word: pianos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player, for example, takes much of its style and action form the American gangster film. His Farenbeit 451 is adapted from a second-rate novel and takes after the sci-fi films of the fifties. The Bride Wore Black is a product of Truffaut's consuming interest in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, to whom the film is dedicated and the imitation detracts from the individuality of the film...
...With his customary ingenuity, Miles has turned up some rock samples that should do America proud. By sitting Pianists Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul down at electric keyboards and adding John McLaughlin's guitar, he has found a new sound formula. Using the impressionistic surge of piano, throb of bass and clockwork clack of drumstick, Miles conducts melodic tracking expeditions into a curiously peaceful space...
CRAIG HUNDLEY TRIO & ORCHESTRA (World Pacific). Here is an album that will make listeners want to throw themselves into the generation gap. At fifteen, Hundley cannot get a driver's license, but he can play the piano in stunning style. With Bassist Stuffy McKinney, 16, Drummer Gary Chase, 15, and a big band arranged by Don Sebesky and Allyn Ferguson, Hundley shows a flair for rock rhythms, displays an affection for Sonny Rollins tunes and contributes two appealing compositions...
...freedom. But the interruptions and the noise that make dorm life what it is make studying impossible. The constant noise creates a constant non-transcendant now and here. The roar of meals, the music other people use as futile anodynes for the same conditions, the telephones, the feet, the piano in the lower regions, the voices and the plumbing make the space she is sitting in come alive as a huge, swaying, indifferent body...
...casual friendships (casual in the sense of chance). Few are aware of it, but it is these casual friendships that are one of the millstones around the Cliffie's neck. Watch out for casual friends? Your casual friend is the girl who tells you she is about to start piano lessons or the girl who shows you the new boots she's bought, the girl you hear has just gotten an A on her anthropology paper or the girl who had four dates in one day. You don't play the piano, you don't have new boots...