Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discriminate, Skinner views himself, as he does all living things, as extremely complex machines. Keep the thing in tune and point it in the right direction, says he, and it'll go just fine...
...continuation of the same sounds, assembled in shorter cuts, perhaps for the benefit of the air waves. "I Got The News" uses graceful vocal harmony and some fine guitar leads with the album's usual set of jazz instruments to weave a fluent, atriking cut. "Peg" is that cute tune to which all the top-fortyettes will bump. Peg," despite its true quality, approaches the barrier between easy-listening-jazz and disco. The "Disco Dan" concept puts a damper on the album, raising doubts as to whether or not this band will in fact "die behind the wheel...
...point solos. Carter, who is now one of the top recording bassists, also plays on Tyner's "Fly With The Wind" and "Supertrios." The latter is not as uniformly strong an album as "Trident," but does include an excellent Tyner-Carter duet on Ellington's classic tune, "Preludes to a Kiss...
...performer. He differs from his Village contemporaries in his master of direct communication with his audience; he borrows neither Bob Dylan's detachment nor Phil Ochs' alcoholic trance. Rather, he is akin to Joni Mitchell, who cajoles her audience to sing along because "the more out-of-tune voices on a song, the better." Paxton, too, encourages participation, seeking to bridge the gap between artist and idolator. And by explaining the motivation behind the composition of each song, Paxton secures an Intellectual bond with his listeners...
...must study an object a long tune," Matisse remarked in 1951, "to know what its sign is." The signs he developed in the cut-outs are a testament to his gift for preserving the ebullience of nature in a medium that naturally moved toward decorative formality...