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Blood, Sweat and Tears, an American group, played first for a slow hour. The group's sound is saved by its great banks of horns (four horns out of a massive nine men in the group) except when these horn players indulge in their bland, meaningless solos. However, when the...
THERE is no music like that music, no drama like the drama of the saints rejoicing, the sinners moaning, the tambourines racing, and all those voices coming together and crying holy unto the Lord. I have never seen anything to equal the fire and excitement that sometimes, without warning, fill...
The time is 1943. Scene: the 440 Club in Indianapolis. A chunky, exuberant 20-year-old named Wes Montgomery sits on the bandstand. Inspired by the recordings of the great jazz guitarist Charlie Christian ("they burned my ears"), he has bought a guitar with his day-laborer's wages...
Wes plays the same solos through again, note for note. They are all that he has learned so far. Except for them, he can barely pick out a scale.
The familiar concerto in sonata form, with balanced themes and brilliant solos, seems to be dead, but composers still wirte concertos in the original sense of the word: simple two tonial forces opposed to each other. Some recent releases showing the directions the concerto has taken in this century: