Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer, a solo hike to the summit, though permitted, is impossible because of the number of other people. Crowds thin out significantly during winter, when severe weather locks the mountain in ice and snow, but solo-hiking is illegal. Baxter State Park winter regulations ban parties of fewer than four people from camping or climbing anywhere above the treeline. However, despite the rules, groups of one, two or three campers often attempt the climb. Last winter, rangers apprehended a pair of climbers; two weekends ago they caught Eugene B. (Gus) Yates...
Keith Jarrett plays piano very, very well, something he will demonstrate in a solo recital at the Music Hall on March 5. The tickets are expensive, but it's worth it to see someone who is not wearing white tie and tails play without looking at the music...
...contemporaries. Her voice tingles, hums and vibrates on combination of Minnie Ripperton and notes from high to low, sounding like a Denice Williams. With the exception of occasionally explosive tracks, the tone is predominantly soft and smooth. She plays a masterful improvisation of the keyboard in an acoustic piano solo, "Hang it Up." In "Changes (In Your Life)," Rushen arranges the guitars and seasons the sound with a peppery synchronization of handclaps and fingersnaps...
...world renown: With fame I become more and more stupid, which, of course, is a very common phenomenon. There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is. With me, every peep becomes a trumpet solo...
...Angeles, Mingus began studying bass in high school, later played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker before forming his own combo in New York in the mid-'50s. Influenced strongly by blues and gospel, he began writing music that highlighted the bass as a solo instrument and featured contorted harmonies and quick-changing rhythms with sudden breaks and howls. Of burly build and mercurial temper, the bearded Mingus sometimes grew violent onstage when faced by inattentive audiences and became increasingly angered over treatment of blacks in the U.S., especially musicians. "Don't call me a jazz...