A
Brief History of King Crimson: 1969-1974
Despite the fact that a great deal of the music
played by the original Crimson lineup of Robert
Fripp/Ian McDonald/Greg Lake/Michael Giles/Peter
Sinfield was, indeed, part of the progressive scene,
there is no question that the entity that is King
Crimson, has transcended that initial identity and
a good many others besides. The band has thrived
on personnel changes and as a result, on musical
change as well
Knockin'
'Em Down In The City: Iggy Pop--The Arista Years Iggy
was pretty much down for the count at the time Arista
signed him. When former Columbia stalwart Clive Davis
found that Iggy had been signed to his fledgling label
he wouldn't even commit to releasing the albums in
the U.S.
Blue
Jean Baby Blue
jean music. It's a term that describes the early-to-mid-seventies
style that is piano based, usually by female singer/songwriters
(not always, though), and represents some of the inner
searching that followed the outward, protest-based
expressions of the 1960s. Some call this the "singer-songwriter
era", and there is no question that was a predominant
piece of the pop music pie, but the recordings I'm
speaking of evoke the time in which they were recorded,
a time that, in my mind, was simpler in many ways
The
Revolution Will Not Be Homogenized Back
in 1968, the music scene was undergoing a revolution
that had nothing to do with MP3, but the overall effects
were just as far-reaching. Black popular music had
been neatly divided by the music industry into jazz,
blues, R&B, and gospel, but as more listeners
(both black and white) discovered these segmented
genres they began to be drawn together into a cohesive
whole that threatened to create a new black identity
in America. Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, Cannonball
Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Ramsey Lewis began
to seek ways to bring blues and gospel back into jazz
music.
