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...TYPICAL song begins with a soft organ intro which is then picked up by the others and transmuted through a series of structural and musical changes. For example, in "Punch and Judy" each member of the group does a solo (Lassie Sachs' bass solo being outstanding) while in the background the others play the melodic line in a fading spiralling version...
...Monday night, I went down to the Jazz Workshop to hear The Chicago Blues Allstars (a group put together by Muddy Waters to tour the country--Johnny Shines on guitar, Shaky Walter Horton on harmonica, Sunnyland Slim on Piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Clifton James on drums), a rare collection of great individual artists who grew up in the south and later moved to Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed...
...performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent, despite its 90-odd members, even in the tumultuous contrapuntal sections...
...music of unamplified instruments above the din of the people at the bar, of the cars in the streets, and of the elevated trains overhead. The result was that Blues became amplified. Guitars were electrified, the singing was carried over a public address system and drums, extra guitars, bass piano and other instruments were added to increase volume and provide music for dancing as well as listening...
...Chapter four you break up, but you give her just one more chance.' I think the first one was better. The Who play hard rock music, and have a great act, and are very weird people. The group has a drummer, a bass guitar, lead guitar, and a singer, but they produce a complex, brutal, hard sound. People go to their concerts to try to see how they make all those noises with so few instruments. Its hard to describe, but the breaks in their sound awfully formless and abstract, but deep down they consist of just a hard drum...