Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These vocal harmonies on Rank and File are also the last remaining trace of the band's former country sound. Unfortunately, the rest of that sound has been swallowed up by Ross's guitar and so-called "Rosstronix" effects. The result is several songs in which Ross vamps on for about half a minute too long, as if the band couldn't decide how or when...
Also very impressive was the presence of alumni performers who came back to be part of a tradition started four years ago. Rex Dean '84, the founder of Jazz For Life, returned to sing, as did Paul Brusiloff '86 and the Cambridge-based, alumni-dominated vocal group Centerpiece. Saxophonist Don Braden '85-'88 interrupted his studies to tour with Wynton Marsalis and may never return to Harvard for a degree. He did, however, return to support Jazz For Life, playing both as featured soloist and as sideman...
...record set covers 30 years of their music, starting with a rough-and-ready Mardi Gras Mambo (released in 1955) and ending with a spirited spiritual recessional recorded in the spring of 1985. New Orleans produced many superb musicians and singers, but the Nevilles are the town's premier vocal ensemble. A single cut, Fire on the Bayou, is like a dancing flame on an oil slick. It produces enough heat to warm a mountain cabin for a week...
...their lives." She developed her approach while at Buena Park, where one of her students, Kuehn, was considered autistic and virtually untrainable. During a music period she mumbled under her breath, "Now what key do we do this song in?" Kuehn correctly piped up, "Key of G." His vocal training began immediately and gave rise to the first Hi Hopes group...
...retarded. Britt is attending a community college and has had two one-man shows of his paintings. In Connecticut, one 31-year-old man, diagnosed as autistic when a child, has become a gifted pianist. In Baton Rouge, La., Kathy Dial, a child with severe brain damage, has a vocal repertoire of some 300 songs...