Word: herds
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...keep Jacksonville from developing." Employees of one embattled company made explicit threats on his life. He began to worry when the station's ad director sarcastically offered him a list of WJXT's customers "so I could hit them systematically instead of one by one." The herd kept pressing, and several weeks ago Thompson was fired for doing his job too well. "I've covered civil rights marches and jail riots," says the bewildered Young Goodman Thompson, who also picked up 18 decorations in Viet Nam. "But this conservation thing is the one that really scared...
Rumor has linked the name of the President's elder daughter Tricia Nixon, 24, to a herd of eligible bachelors, among them White House Aide Jeff Donfeld and Barry Goldwater Jr. Nothing serious, said Mother last week in an obvious effort to scratch the whole field: "Tricia has a boy friend in every port." Nonetheless, White House insiders insist that there's a front runner, Harvard Law Student Edward Cox, 23, whom Tricia first met six years ago at a Chapin School dance in New York. In fact, these Washington touts are hinting that Tricia and her steady...
...does almost everyone else, is rock-a far cry from the free-blowing kind of blues on which Woody's first band, formed in the late 1930s, pegged its fortunes. His next band (1944-47), the first and best of a long succession that bore the name Herd, was a hard-driving ensemble with a precision-drilled brass attack, modulated by a sophisticated Ellingtonian touch. The first Herd's explosive rendition of such numbers as Apple Honey and Northwest Passage appealed to just about everybody-including Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the Ebony Concerto for Woody...
...rock and the toe-tapping, old-gold sound that was the trademark of his earlier bands. Mixing updated versions of old Herman specialities with ear-blowing arrangements of such contemporary tunes as the Doors' Light My Fire and Jim Webb's Mac Arthur Park, the latest Herd has a rare ability to bridge pop music's generation gap. It is equally welcome at the hip Fillmore West and Manhattan's touristy Copacabana, where Woody and Songstress Dionne Warwick have just begun a joint two-week engagement...
Herman finds contemporary rock more interesting than pop music a generation ago: tunes are longer and more complex, rhythms more diverse. Fortunately, the 16 young members of his current Herd-many of whom came from such music schools as Boston's Berklee and Indiana University-can play whatever Herman's arrangers ask. Woody returns the favor by giving them a remarkable measure of freedom. The group's spontaneity-perhaps the strongest remaining link to Herman's jazz past-attests to that. So does the individual success of such former Herman sidemen as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims...