Word: swings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Grapelli's sound, his swing, is unmistakable. He can play exactly as he did in 1934. He has also recorded some modern works with Jean-Luc Ponty. And he has even recorded with Yehudi Menuhin. He will play his versatile violin tomorrow night with the Diz Disley trio at the Berklee Performance Center...
...talking again: "Grapelli's innate sense of swing, his incredible control just leave you agape." I turn the radio off and finish this column. Wouldn't it be nice if Brother Blue were right? Wouldn't it be nice if Louis and Django did jam every night, just for fun? "Humbling thought," as George Wald used to muse...
ABOUT A MONTH AGO Chet Flippo wrote in Rolling Stone that since Waylon Jennings was a recluse up in the hills and Willie Nelson had moved to California, the only thing that was left in Austin was the best of the country swing bands. Then he dumped some more on Waylon and Willie. So imagine my surprise when the Waylon and Willie album came out a couple weeks after that with effusive liner notes by--you guessed it, Chet Flippo--some of which bear quoting: "I humbly submit that the world needs a lot more Willie and Waylon right...
ASIDE FROM THE influence of a coterie of egalitarian and moralistic French philosophers and the vestiges of old aristocratic and peasant values that have mediated industrial class conflict, the swing to the left can be attributed in part to the sheer expression of shifting material interests of the French. Ironically, the present majority has hastened its own demise precisely because it has been so successful in stimulating economic expansion and industrialization for the past 20 years. Aided by a government that maintained its legitimacy only as long as the assembly lines were pouring out increasing numbers of cars, clothes...
...alarm clock burrs, the bedroom curtains swing silently apart, the Venetian blinds snap up and the thermo stat boosts the heat to a cozy 70º. The percolator in the kitchen starts burbling; the back door opens to let out the dog. The TV set blinks on with the day 's first newscast: not your Today show humph-humph, but a selective rundown (ordered up the night before) of all the latest worldwide events affecting the economy ? legislative, political, monetary. After the news on TV comes the morning mail, from correspondents who have dictated their messages into the computer network...