Word: sidemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could forgive the obvious bullshit involved if the presence of Clarke--and his Return to Forever colleague, Chick Corea--had somehow managed to make this album worth listening to. But they are no more than sidemen on LifeTimes. Diana Hubbard, on her first album, runs the show, playing piano, (Corea isrelegated to the synthesizer on the one cut he graces) and writing all the music. But unfortunately Hubbard lacks emotion, technique; in fact, she lacks any creative vision beyond a vague desire to "contribute to a renaissance in romanticism...
...Mingus (Asylum). An act of elaborate and loving homage to the late Charles Mingus, formidable bass player and jazz composer. The record is more emotional in its dedication than in its musicianship, however. Mitchell's lyrics for Mingus' sometimes abstruse music get a little toplofty, and her sidemen-Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius are among the most renowned-stay so aloof and mechanical the record turns to stainless steel...
...John Connally's first visit of the campaign included a 1978 appearance at Goffstown (pop. 2,272) that attracted precisely no one. Connally will try again, never fear, this time trailed, again never fear, by hordes of reporters, camera crews and Texas sidemen, all of whose expenditures for motel rooms, meals, booze and rental cars juice up the fragile New Hampshire economy each election year to the tune of an estimated $4 million. They will probably spend more than $1 million in the preprimary year...
...film's conceit is that the original Sgt. Pepper and his three sidemen were heroic World War I bandsmen who returned to their town of Heartland and, after full lives, bequeathed their instruments to the four little boys who would grow up to become the second Sgt. Pepper band. These are Frampton, a sweet-faced youth with wilted blond hair, and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, the brothers who are the Bee Gees...
...worst, free jazz borders on bedlam. At its best-as in the Newport concerts of Taylor and Coleman-the music has internal rhythms and themes that give it direction. For 50 minutes, Taylor-hallmark shades and knit cap in place-and his sidemen wrapped Carnegie Hall in a solid sheet of sound, each member of the group swapping and developing ideas from the others. A frenzied, virtuoso performer, Taylor roiled tempests on the bass of the piano, then modulated into short phrases and lyrical passages that contained echoes of Bartók and Debussy...