Word: sax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chow. He is going to the gym to cut an album. Though Sonny has been in prison for all but 42 months of the past 20 years, he is, at age 42, at the peak of a spectacular musical career. Master of the piano, flute, bass, guitar and sax, he also composes, arranges and conducts. Lately he has led his band in three separate dates at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. He and his band recently toured the state to rave reviews and tearful standing ovations...
...kind in the U.S., the Michigan statute could inspire a flurry of oddball suits. If a Detroit resident dislikes auto pollution, for example, he might well ask a court to ban all downtown traffic. Even so, the bill's chief drafter, University of Michigan Law Professor Joseph L. Sax, is sure that courts will accent only rational suits, and gradually create a much needed body of environmental test cases. Versions of the Michigan law are now being weighed by legislators in Colorado, New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and the U.S. Congress...
...Moondance is a more mature album. Though there are no virtuoso instrumentals, the music is much stronger. Morrison has added another sax, piano, organ and congo drum-practically a small orchestra. But the music itself is not the vital part of Moondance. Its function is to provide a background for Morrison, as The Band did for Dylan. And this is superbly done; the instrumentalists almost, but never quite drop out of sight...
...ever the New Thing had a whole man, it was the late John Coltrane. An innovator, his "sheets of sound" technique and long (often 40 minutes) sonata-like solos on sax have revolutionized the jazz world. He was looked up to by other New Thing players as a friend and spiritual leader. "He seemed like a priest, the way he talked," recalls Saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, a former sideman and now leader of his own group...
...there was Garth Hudson and Jamie Robertson, Not once did a smile appear on Hudson's bearded face as he moved from organ. to accordian, to baritone sax. But always there was a knowing expression. as if more than anyone, he understood and felt The Band's music. Bent over the organ at the back of the stage, almost but never completely forgotten by the audience, he cast quick glances-knowing glances-about the stage, as if acknowledging the source of The Band's incredible music...