Word: saxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about half of the hour-long set and when he did, he was confusing at best. Throughout the most ludicrous portions of the concerts, when Pharoah was shreiking beyond belief, positively driving everybody up the walls, the woman next to me was smiling cheerfully, apparently pleased by his sax turned pneumatic drill. At the end of one incredibly excruciating stretch I asked her how she did it. She turned toward me dumbly and extracted two plugs of cotton from her ears. I guess some people come better prepared than others. Albums. By the way, some Blue note re-release albums...
...successes and failures of the music that has been labelled avant-garde jazz. The four featured musicians represent a fair selection of the music's most important figures. Ornette Coleman (alto saxophone) and Cecil Taylor (piano) were among the first of avant-garde's proponents. Albert Ayler (tenor sax) was an influential force in the music throughout the '60s and Marion Brown (tenor sax) is a late-blossomer. The records display the new expressive powers that the music's structural freedom allows: they also show the chaos that can result when inspiration falters and there is no strucural discipline...
Harvard Rock. The young Ivy cherubs of rock get together at Quincy House this Saturday night: Brock Walsh on vocals and Richard Lyons on plano. Also John Payne--one of the Friends of Delaney and Bonnie--on sax...
...focus of attention was Tony Conigliaro, who returned to baseball after a three-year absence. Tony c., the Sax designated hitter, exhibiting the sarne flair for the dramatie he has exhibited throughout his career, punched a clean line drive single on his first time at bat in three years to the thunderous approval of the Fenway crowed Conigliaro didn't fare as well in his other times at bat, grounding our three times...
...spin-off from Gillespie, but it offered not so much as a toot. No sax, no horn, no clarinet. Instead there was a clean, nearly transparent sound made by piano, vibraharp, bass and drum...