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Speaking of focal points, McCoy Tyner's new album, "Focal Point," is just one terrific performance by Tyner. The release, cut this summer, but just now making it to the shelves at the Coop, is devoid of the heavy string section that made "Fly With the Wind" such a hit...
But hopes were soon dashed by the performance of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10, which followed. The Shostakovich, composed in 1926, is enormously demanding, both because its ambience is unpredictable and puckishly cynical, and because all the orchestral parts are so exposed. Clearly, from a...
Klemmer's saxophone, of course, dominates each song and his solos are superlative. But the effect of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and you're more conscious of an almost three-dimensional effect than of only the solos, only the melody. Barefoot Ballet envelops you...
The music of the Trammps is as snazzily tailored. The intense pulsating play of the drums lights the choreographic fire. The distinctive sound of the group is supplied by its jazzy, hard-chugging trumpet and saxophone, soaring guitar solos and sweet, soulful male vocals. "If we can't get...
The younger musicians are also engaged in this kind of cross-fertilization. Chick Corea, 35, a Miles Davis alumnus with a reputation for lyrical introspection on the piano, now leads a group called Return to Forever, one of the first electronic jazz bands to reach a mass rock audience. Bassist...