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Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (Atlantic; $6.98). An alumnus of Miles Davis and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham evolved from a progressive rhythm-and-blues drummer to a deft jazz writer-arranger. His music, often danceable, reflects Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic and tonal influences. Solarization, a 10½-minute elaboration of a five-note motif, is sometimes ruminative, but at other times radiates sizzling sensuality...
P.D.Q. BACH'S MUSICAL ineptness was not the sort of thing we can attribute to such simple cause as his dissolute life or his inability to carry a tune. Bach seems to have had little rhythmic sense; indeed, his dance music, as Schickele has aid, suggests that one of his legs was shorter than the other. A lesser problem was his lack of melodic gift. As the third movement of the Serenoodle, entitled "Chorale Prelude," amply demonstrated. P.D.Q. Bach stole tunes from his better freely and without compunction...
...conniving femmes fat ales, Mata Hari and Delilah pale by comparison to female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
...five had conspired to cover up the true origins of the Watergate bugging and burglary is massive. It includes the playing of more than 20 hours of recordings, the appearance of 30 witnesses, the presentation of some 130 documents. If the deluge of material was sometimes bewildering, the rhythmic interjection of such confessed conspirators as John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder, Herbert Kalmbach and Fred LaRue giving their versions of cover-up activities, and the playing of tapes that verified their testimony was overwhelmingly effective. The most promising hope for the defense seems to be that one juror might conceivably hold...
...Nutcracker, the audience of 3,000 relaxed, relieved to discover that the two dancers easily reestablished their reputations. Said one fan: "He took off like a jet." And when the Panovs completed the program with Valeri's own choreography of Harlequinade, they were acclaimed with ten minutes of rhythmic applause. Overwhelmed by their reception, Valeri said: "It's as though we have been born anew...