Word: trane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tribute to Bird-Trane-Mingus--Jaki Byard, Dick Johnson, Billy Pierce, Billy Thompson, Stanton Davis, Boots Maleson, and Semenyk McCord; Emmannuel Church, Boton...
...scorcher of '73, when perspiring consumers bought a grand total of 5.3 million room-size air-conditioning units and 2.8 million central cooling systems. Then sales plunged, reaching a low of 4.2 million conditioners of all types in 1975. The manufacturers, led by five big firms-Carrier, Trane, Fedders, Lennox and General Electric-have also seen their air-conditioner sales fall off as a result of the recession-induced decline in the construction of new homes and office buildings...
Tyner's course is a strange one. He spent his formative years playing with John Coltrane, sticking with Trane for more than five years. His excellent piano work on albums like "My Favorite Things," both fast and slow versions, and on the series of Coltrane quartet albums of the 1963-64 period, identified Tyner as a standout on his own right...
...when Trane died in 1967, leaving Tyner to fend for himself, the mellow piano player turned vicous. He stayed that way right through the early portion of the 1970s. Albums like "sama Layuca" and "Song of the New World" lost that pleasing sound that he had created with Trane...
...liner notes on Coltrane's Selflessness album--that's the one with the fast version of My Favorite Things on side two. Roy Haynes was substituting for Coltrane's regular man, Elvin Jones, doing what I think was the finest drum work on any of the MFT cuts that Trane recorded. But in the liner notes, usually reserved for bubbling praise, Kofsky came down hard on Haynes and said he couldn't compare with Jones. He can--he may be better...