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...what I Told You" offers a strange blend of romance and cynicism balancing the outright fun of "Motorcycle Man" or of "Railroad Train Runnin' Up My Back." While weaving his voice in and out among tracks of piano and backup instruments. Simon is assisted by an extraordinary crew of sidemen including Leon Russell. Every Brooks on bass, Paul Harris on organ, and to Coolidge singing background vocals with Bobby Whitlock of Derek and the Dominos...
...Cliburn summoning up memories of Meade Lux Lewis. But Jazz Great Gerry Mulligan's attacks on baritone sax are crisp and clean, and Brubeck and Mulligan bob and glide together like Astaire and Rogers doing the Big Apple. For a finale, Mulligan, the three Brubecks and nine assorted sidemen are likely to jam for wondrous minutes on something like Mulligan's Tune for an Unfinished Woman...
...jazz came home to the city that reared it, made it rich, sucked it dry, threw it aside -and now, in a stroke of historical irony, seems to have given it one of its biggest revitalizations ever. For nine days, some 62 all-stars and more than 500 sidemen-from Duke Ellington to Charlie Byrd, from Dizzy Gillespie to Roberta Flack, from Eddie Condon to Sonny Rollins-wailed through 30 concerts in eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total...
...gives a damn?" No. 1 Beach Boy Brian Wilson asked at the time. "I like to write about something these kids feel is their whole world." In song after song-Little Deuce Coupe, Car Crazy Cutie, Girls on the Beach, and, naturally, Fun, Fun, Fun-Wilson and his sidemen did just that. By the mid-1960s the Beach Boys were the most popular U.S. rock group in history...
...whisky these days, but not because of any woman. Five years ago, during an engagement in Detroit, he developed a nosebleed that would not quit for a week. A doctor attributed it to high blood pressure and also suggested Muddy cut down on his drinking. Now when he, his sidemen and guests get thirsty backstage, Muddy uncorks half a dozen or so bottles of champagne. He can afford it. Muddy won't say exactly how much he earns on a gig, but there are plenty of gigs these days, and his 1970 income was close to six figures...