Word: tour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promotional details are the most interesting things about this epic live recording. Columbia has packaged these records as an event, a happening of lasting musical significance, but the music represented here does not justify their extravagance. Chick Corea and company pulled out all the stops for their Spring 1977 tour of North America--they even carted along a full brass section and a concert grand piano--and their Boston appearance was sensational. But as so often happens, this performance lost much of its magic in the translation to vinyl...
Corea continually rearranged the group's charts during the tour, and in spots they bear the stamp of an impressive musical imagination. In the middle of Clarke's "Hello Again," Chick has the bass leap into a swinging stride figure, then covers a couple of choruses in classic cabaret-style piano. The moment is totally unexpected, and it inspires an otherwise weak composition. The big-band funk of "Musicmagic" becomes a vehicle for extended solo exchanges--Corea duels with Clarke's hard rocking bass, Joe Farrell's jazzy reed lines, and workhorse Gerry Brown's polyrhythmic drums...
...promotion tour for her recently published autobiography, "By Myself," Bacall, siren of the '40s and originator of The Look, dropped into the Coop for an hour to sign copies of the book. All hell broke loose...
That was the consensus yesterday afternoon in Santa Monica, Calif., where the Harvard hoopsters were resting up from a winter vacation tour, awaiting a final game last night against Pepperdine...
That went for the Israeli lobby in the U.S. as well. Begin telephoned Jewish leaders to give his account of the talks' collapse. Israel's Justice Minister Shmuel Tamir, who was on a U.S. tour, encouraged pro-Israel groups to launch a write-in and telegram campaign aimed at the White House and Congress. A group of 33 Jewish intellectuals, including Writers Saul Bellow and Irving Howe, who have criticized the Begin government's inflexibility in the past, sent Carter a letter saying that Washington's support of Cairo's position was "unacceptable...