Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SANDY BULL, an accomplished guitarist, plays folk music as well as jazz, classical works and his own too-lengthy ragalike musings. His Inventions (Vanguard) includes such surprises as a Bach gavotte played on an electric guitar with an organlike sonority, a 14th century ballad performed on oud, banjo and guitar, and a swinging selection of 20th century rhythm and blues...
...tired of these surface exercises. For those still in the vanguard, Les Abysses may prove fulfilling. For the rest of us, those panderers of romanticism, Goddard and Truffaut, will soon return to the Brattle...
Other unearthed P.D.Q. favorites, including the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn, have since been collected on a Vanguard recording. Perhaps the most touching compliment Schickele received was from a lady who rushed up to him after one concert, shook his hand warmly and gushed: "Oh, professor, it was awful, just awful!" "Thank you," said Schickele, "thank...
Folk Music JOAN BAEZ: FAREWELL, ANGELINA (Vanguard). Time and tax debts have not diminished Baez's haunting voice one iota, but they have changed her material. Forsaking her early ballads, she now warbles four Dylan tunes (including It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall), launches into French, and sings Where Have AH the Flowers Gone in German-as if her English would offend...
...WEAVERS: REUNION AT CARNEGIE HALL, PART 2 (Vanguard). If anyone has forgotten that the Weavers were once the pharaohs of folk, here is fresh proof. Recorded at a concert in 1963, this new release includes Frozen Logger, Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, Old Smoky and Rock Island Line, plus a ditty called I'm Standing on the Outside of Your Shelter-bomb shelter, that...