Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...amplifiers, a special cartridge for his record player, as well as an assortment of optional gear. His stereo library was comprised mainly of trick noises and demonstration records -drum recitals, incoming tides (on the flip side: outgoing tides), the sound of an olive dropping into a martini, an album called Music to Listen By, a Ping-pong game in which the illusion of the moving ball was vivid enough to make a listener's head swivel...
Djangology (Django Reinhardt; RCA Victor). The late great gypsy guitarist in previously unreleased recordings made in Rome in 1949-50. Three of Reinhardt's four companions are Italian jazzmen-not members of the Quintet of The Hot Club of France, as the album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...
...Brussels World Fair in 1958. Although it has always labored under a deficit, times are getting better: Stravinsky heard the singers in Los Angeles in 1959, was so impressed that he conducted them in his Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms. Columbia will soon issue a Gregg Smith album. As the group's popularity grows, Conductor Smith thinks it will accomplish his most cherished ambition: to popularize modern music through "the inherent logic of the human voice...
...19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books share the style of an ironic, sometimes witty guided tour through a family album. Lampedusa was the greater craftsman and the subtler artist. Where The Leopard became an elegy for an aristocratic way of life, Ippolita comes close to being an opera about the waywardness of life...
Because "a rectory with 16 priests is no place for banjo practice," Father Dustin warms up in a flower shop across the street - an arrangement so mutually satisfactory that the florist has sold 300 of the Father's albums since July. Father Dustin humbly attributes this success to an order of cloistered nuns who, "when they get the time, say a prayer for the success of the album. Not many records have that help going for them...