Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Contract. In becoming midwife to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, currently staggering through their first season in the National Football League, John McKay won instant independence. At 53 he will not again have to worry about economic indicators. But by concentrating on the man's capital rather than his style, one misses the point. McKay was a great college coach who never publicly confused his success with the state of humanity. Football, he has suggested, is only a game. "You draw Xs and Os on a blackboard and that's not so difficult. I can even do it with...
...like McKay, Lombardi had a style. It was ferocity. That, plus his victories at Green Bay, made him the focus for a generation of football writing. Presently, we heard from the right that Lombardi was the noblest Roman since Octavius. (Not Brutus. Brutus lost.) The left suggested that he would have made a perfect fascist. In the cacophony people forgot that Lombardi was only a football coach who put Xs and Os on a board-righthanded...
...care less. They are detectives working undercover to investigate the strange goings-on at a prison farm, and becoming prisoners of that institution is the only way they can do their jobs. They are also, however, nice girls, and their cool quickly disappears as a matron, dressed SS style, clearly lesbian in sexual orientation, growls: "O.K., girls, strip down to your birthday suits." After a mandatory shower, each in turn must open her towel and submit to the warder's inspection as she sprays them with disinfectant. That's only the beginning. Beatings, threats of rape and enforced...
...saxophone as no other has. Gato Barbieri is still getting praises for his rock-jazz-orchestra synthesis Caliente, which has managed to find playing time on several local FM stations. Gato is up from South America, but he has been away for so long that one wonders whether his style hasn't taken on a totally American approach. But there is a gutsy resonance in his tenor that can't be found in American musicians. One of the first to embrace electricity in jazz, Gato has refined the sound so much that the gizmos don't interfere in his playing...
...much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album) and has maintained a high standard of romanticism in jazz. His style is best when in quartet, but his larger orchestra numbers can be fairly interesting...