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...Blakey is a living legend, a musical, almost melodic drummer, a musician who performs for his audience as much as he does for himself. Unfortunately, you missed him. He was at the Jazz Workshop until last night...
...Concentrating more money and manpower on fighting the Mob. According to a study by G. Robert Blakey, director of the Cornell Institute on Organized Crime, all levels of government employ only 400 lawyers who specialize in organized crime. Says he: "The Mafia now has more lawyers than we have...
Stanley Clarke (Nemperor; $6.98). Clarke, 23, can play anything from a soft-shoe acoustic bass to taut Spanish classic strings to a wailing electric bass. His background includes classical bass studies and ensemble playing with Stan Getz, Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Imaginative stick work by Drummer Tony Williams provides an effective foil for Clarke over much of his first...
...Days, produced by Joseph M. Russin and Scott Blakey of San Francisco's KQED, is a tribute to more than one strong human spirit. Alice Stratton, trying to keep her hopes up while raising her three children, is also revealed as a woman of admirable courage. She deliberately minimizes the difficulties she faced; yet there is an extraordinary patience, sweetness and faith in her talk about the empty years carved out of the middle of her life...
...brought together 30 musicians in an exciting, albeit seemingly disorganized, concert before an enthusiastic young audience. That many of the musicians had never played together before created more interest than actual disorganization. Three of the seven sets were particularly notable. A bebop set led by Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey was marked by bizarre incidents as well as musical highlights. Art Blakey amused the audience by running on and off stage carrying his cymbals as the fanatics pleaded for an encore. The height of weirdness came when a violinist with a shaved head and a black cape (name unknown--referred...