Word: combo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record listeners happen to touch upon, the recording group-which is also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part II, it is a modern jazz combo with a streak of contemporary classical dissonance. In Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie, it is a chamber ensemble with pastoral flutes, Bartokian brass and a buzz of electronic sound effects...
...LIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Dave Brubeck is featured in this performance of his original oratorio, accompanied by his combo, an organ and a 300-voice choir at Washington Cathedral...
...black, white and brown-are turned toward the stage, crying "Hallelujah" and "God be praised!" For more than an hour the tension has been building up. Testimonies, gospel songs, pledges, blessings, and more songs-a writhing, Presleyan, shirt-open gospel rock driven home by an organ, drums and piano combo. Women are swaying in the aisles, men clapping and shouting from their seats...
King of Wings. At Manhattan's West Boondock, tor example, miniskirted waitresses ply the tables while a jazz combo plays softly in the background; there is a wine list, and Diners' Club or Carte Blanche cards are honored. The Player's Choice, a restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Strip that claims to be "strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department...
Last year San Diego's COMBO (Combined Arts of San Diego) raised $250,000 auctioning off such items as a new house, an African safari and a ride in the Goodyear blimp; nobody bid on the two-week vacation in a nudist colony. Orlando's (Fla.) PESO (Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizations), which raised $162,000 at its auction last year, had no trouble disposing of 50 tons of orange-grove fertilizer and a $2,500 orange-grove sprayer. And in Phoenix this year, such items as hernia and cataract operations, stud service by a registered...