Word: albums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss was a lynx-eared noise merchant by the name of Sidney Frey. Audiophiles alert for a vicarious thrill can hear awesome testimony to his demand for accuracy on a forthcoming Audio Fidelity album titled Sound Effects II. During his campaign in Brooklyn, Frey staged six crashes (by sending one wreck at the end of a tow rope hurtling into another), but the calculated carnage was a minor incident in his tireless pursuit of sound. Audio Fidelity's Frey, 40, has already trapped a hurricane (Donna), recommissioned an obsolete steam engine, provoked a Great Dane to vicious complaint, wooed...
...Stereo," believes that his taped sounds answer a deep-seated emotional need-"a basic craving to hear stereophonically." But for the unwary, Frey's effects are often more unsettling than satisfying. When played at top volume, the fizz of a freshly opened soda bottle on a Frey album explodes into the fury of a hurricane-whipped ocean; the gurgle of water washing down a drain becomes the belch of some prehistoric monster...
...Cohn: Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor). A sequel to the unpredictably popular Drum Suite album of several years ago. Composer-Saxophonist Cohn coaxes six drummers (on snares, cymbals, tom-toms) into a sort of illustrated seminar on the art of drumming-from brush technique to rim shots. Cohn wraps his lessons into a number of his own big-band compositions with such variety and skill that listeners can forgive a little too much tick, thump...
...year's most successful exercises for small combo. Akiyoshi has developed into a pianist of extraordinary fire and fluency, and Mariano displays-particularly in his remarkable reading of Deep River-a warm, lyric tone that flows like honey from the horn. Nothing in the album is better than Akiyoshi's own Long Yellow Road, a wistful musical memory of the long, straight roads back home in Manchuria...
...night before, Project Twenty presented The Story of Will Rogers, a man who found that future only slightly more orderly than the old West, considerably more baffling, and livable only with the help of humor. Originally, Producer Hyatt planned the Rogers show also as an animated photograph album, then found reels of dusty film of Will and could not resist using them, interspersed with stills. Narrated by Bob Hope, the show presented too little of the private Rogers, but seeing and hearing the old routines gave the audience a fascinating chance to compare the sharp, nervous, political humor...