Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Transplanted Easterners who started collaborating while they were still teenagers in Los Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream...
...supplied a fleet, smart text for the book, but Baby, That Was Rock & Roll is made up mostly of lyrics (terrific) and old photos (family-scrapbook evocative). Mike Stoller's wonderful music is necessarily shortchanged in print. Its influences can be traced-boogie, R&B, smatterings of Latin rhythm and Broadway melody -but the magic remains in the grooves. Best thing to do while looking through this book is put on some Elvis and some Coasters...
...school. Fashionably oversize sunglasses are worn by women in purdah while their denimed daughters in platform shoes kick up the dust in the streets of Istiqlal, the capital. Down in the slums the click of cal abashes and the muezzin's call to prayer compete with an alien rhythm, "with words, repeated in the tireless ecstasy of religious chant, that seemed to say. Chuff, chuff/ do it to me, baby,/ do it, do it,/ Momma don't mind what Daddy...
Vastola mercilessly impaled his Army opponents with superb point control, smooth rhythm and fine footwork. Fencing as well as he has in over a year, Vastola repeatedly turned long, clean lunges into easy touches...
...symphony suffered too from an alarming lack of ensemble and rhythm. Tutti passages were often poorly coordinated as well as poorly balanced; the winds did not often synchronize their lines with those of the strings or even among themselves, and the brass added imprecise timing to their list of sins. However, the conductor is meant to notice and correct such imperfections of balance and ensemble; thus, with him the responsibility must rest. It is extremely unfortunate that potentially first-rate performances of the Ravel and Beethoven works were spoiled by Lurye's carelessness regarding fundamentals. The persistent inattention to these...