Word: sax
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least two songs on the album from mediocrity and lifts one to brilliance. The bass playing is at times superb, and probably Ron Wood's; elsewhere it is merely workmanlike, and probably Bill Wyman's. Over the years the Stones have acquired a nonpareil corps of sidemen, and sax Bobby Keys, harmonica Sugar Blue, and Keyboards Nicky "Jamming with Edward" Hopkins and Ian Stewart perform with their customary elan. The production and mix are dazzling. Only the guitars are inadequate; if the rhythm guitar and short fills work as well as anyone's, the leads are, unfortunately, hopeless. Whether they...
...least two songs on the album from mediocrity, and lifts one to brilliance. The bass playing is at times superb, and probably Ron Wood's; elsewhere it is merely workmanlike, and probably Bill Wyman's. Over the years the Stones have acquired a nonpareil corps of sidemen, and sax Bobby Keys, harmonica Sugar Blue, and keyboards Nicky "Jamming with Edward" Hopkins and Ian Stewart perform with their customary elan. The production and mix are dazzling. Only the guitars are inadequate; if the rhythm guitar and short fills rock as well as anyone's, the leads are, unfortunately, hopeless. Whether they...
...length white gloves, may be the longest for any after-theater show in town; it is a place so perfectly preserved in décor and atmosphere that one half expects Fred and Ginger to come tripping down the curving, chrome-railed stairways. The Grill, which long played second sax to the Room, became a supper club in 1965. Its windows were doubled in size and the floor raised 18 in. to pull the skyline into the room. It was modestly successful for 14 years, bringing in such performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Sarah Vaughan...
...they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto sax...
...that Frank Zappa with the shaggy mane and the gleaming sax? Nope, it's Paul McCartney, as he appears in a video-taped film in which he plays, seemingly all at once, six different instruments in ten musical guises. The show is a promo for McCartney II, a new album that features guess who on every instrumental track. The old Beatles will never reunite, says McCartney: "The others don't seem keen enough." Ah, but why reassemble the fabulous four when one can be cloned into...