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CONQUEST, ROBERT
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Conrad, John
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COOK, BRUCE
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Up from the Street
(July 1994)
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Up from the Street Ella Fitzgerald By Stuart Nicholson Scribners. 334 pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Bruce Cook Author, "Listen to the Blues," "The Town that Country Built" ELLA FITZGERALD is called...
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby
(January 1989)
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You've Come a Long Way, Baby The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Grove's Dictionaries of Music Edited by Barry Kernfeld Two volumes, 1,432 pp. $295.00 Reviewed by Bruce Cook Author, "The...
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Swing, Bop, Dixie and Cool
(February 1987)
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Swing, Bop, Dixie and Cool American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz By Whitney Balliett Oxford. 415 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Bruce Cook Author, "The Beat Generation, " "Listen to...
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Recountings of a Legendary Jazz Man
(February 1986)
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Recountings of a Legendary Jazz Man Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie As told to Albert Murray Random House. 399 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Bruce Cook Author, "The Beat...
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Saturday Night Blues
(February 1979)
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On Music SATURDAY NIGHT BLUES by bruce cook JOHN BELUSHI and Dan Ackroyd-two regulars on NBC's Saturday Night Live-could do for blues in a single season what Muddy Waters and B B King failed to...
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On Music
(January 1979)
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On Music NASHVILLE SOUNDS by bruce cook J^ndifferent to what is happening elsewhere??though far from ignorant of it??the Nashville music folks just go their own way. And more and more, their path...
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Going to the 'Woddshed'
(November 1978)
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On Music GOING TOTHE 'WOODSHED' by bruce cook wce in theory (and sometimes, it seems, in practice) there is no limit to how far the jazz improviser can go, his listeners always demand all he can...
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On Music
(September 1978)
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On Music FROM BLUES TO BEBOP by bruce cook A little life left jazz when it lost its regional flavor. Today it is barely possible to speak of the distinctions among practitioners in different...
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Ellington Playing the Band
(July 1978)
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On Music ELLINGTON PLAYING THE BAND BY BRUCE COOK E JL^dward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was, to use a popular cant phrase of today, a very private person. As far as his vast black and white public...
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Way Down Yonder
(June 1978)
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On Music WAY DOWN YONDER BY BRUCE COOK N A. ^ ew Orleans is surely the least solemn of cities Having carefully nurtured its reputation for good-timing and high-living, it now seems to have...
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Requiem for Rock
(March 1978)
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On Music REQUIEM FOR ROCK BY BRUCE COOK Critics are so fond ot quoting Schopenhauer's dictum that all arts aspire to the condition of music?meaning, to pure form—that they sometimes forget the...
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Dolly Parton Goes Pop
(February 1978)
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On Music DOLLY PARTON GOES POP BY BRUCE COOK M oma backstage at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D C , to interview Linda Ronstadt one night a few years ago, I ran into Emmylou Harris, who was...
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A Beat Goes On
(January 1978)
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On Music A BEAT GOES ON BY BRUCE COOK To say that Tom Waits is like nobody else working in popular music today would be to engage in the sort of feckless understatement that characterized a more...
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Rock's Man on the Spot
(February 1977)
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On Music ROCK'S MAN ON THE SPOT BY BRUCE COOK Another one of those rock-and-roll survivors has surfaced, breaking through to the light just when it seemed the depths of the '70s had swallowed up...
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Kurt Weill at His Best
(January 1977)
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On Music KURT WEILL AT HIS BEST by BRUCE COOK In 1928, the young partnership of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill was looking around for an ambitious project to undertake. The year before, the two...
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A Southerner in Montreal
(January 1977)
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On Music A Southerner In Montreal by Bruce Cook The word is out that during the Ford-Carter interregnum the Justice Department has put pending prosecutions of draft evaders on the shelf. What,...
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On Music
(November 1976)
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On Music WOODY'S CHILDREN BY BRUCE COOK Recently I attended a concert at Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum honoring the memory of Phi! Ochs. The troubador of the New Left committed suicide last...
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On Music
(August 1976)
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On Music JELLY ROLL AND THE BIRTH OF JAZZ BY BRUCE COOK They called him Jelly Roll (a euphemism for the sex organ). He was a whorehouse piano player, a pimp and an itinerant showman. Toward the...
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On Music
(July 1976)
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On Music A'60s SURVIVOR BY BRUCE COOK The very least that can be said for Steve Miller is that he is a survivor. Take a look around. Where are the rest of those gallant Robespierres and Dantons...
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Violin Jazz
(June 1976)
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On Music VIOLIN JAZZ by bruce cook Considering how long jazz has been around, it seems amazing that all the jazz violinists worth remembering can be counted on the fingers of one hand. But if the...
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On MUSIC
(May 1976)
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On Music A STORYTELLER IN SONG BY BRUCE COOK When rock released American popular music from the tyranny of Tin Pan Alley in the mid-'50s, the benefits to be derived from the liberation were not...
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On Music
(April 1976)
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On Music RECYCLING THE BLUES BY BRUCE COOK The way scholars and folk-lorists have been sifting through the materials of the blues—arguing over the accuracy of transcriptions, debating analogues...
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On Music
(March 1976)
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On Music BEGINNING LIFE AT 33 BY BRUCE COOK IT is hard to know how to classify Larry Jon Wilson. If he had come along 15 years ago, they would have called him a folk singer. They would have been...
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On Music
(March 1976)
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On Music EXCELLENCE INAN UNEXPECTED PLACE BY BRUCE COOK WHENEVER I go to Houston I make it a point to stay at that downtown monument to mammon, the Hyatt Regency. It's not the see-through...
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On Music
(February 1976)
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On Music MAKING THE TRUMPET TALK BY BRUCE COOK "You don't miss your water till the well runs dry," blues-men sing. The line is usually taken to have romantic implications, yet to anyone who looks...
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On Music
(January 1976)
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On Music POP POETS BY BRUCE COOK WHENEVER a pop music critic begins talking about poetry, most sensible people start getting nervous. They remember the '60s, and all those articles about the...
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On Music
(October 1975)
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On Music BLUEGRASS IN THE AIR BY BRUCE COOK Of all genres, subgenres and styles of American music, the one least known but most readily identifiable is bluegrass. Play 30 seconds of practically...
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On Music
(September 1975)
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On Music SCOTT JOPLIN'S OBSESSION BY BRUCE COOK Given the ragtime revival; given Joshua Rifkin and Gunther Schuller; given Marvin Hamlisch's anachronistic but very pleasing score for The Sting;...
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Lending Substance to Sound
(September 1954)
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On Music LENDING SUBSTANCE TO SOUND BY BRUCE COOK Back when I was growing up, things were different—kids wanted to be adults. And listening to music gave you a view into the adult mating game. It...
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Patronizing the Nashville Sound
(July 1975)
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On Music PATRONIZING THE NASHVILLE SOUND BY BRUCE COOK As I write this, I am still trying to recover from the critical blitz done on behalf of Robert Alt-man's new film, Nashville. It may, as its...
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THE 'CHAMPION' OF JAZZ
(June 1975)
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On Music THE 'CHAMPION' OF JAZZ BY BRUCE COOK The critic, Allen Tate has remarked, is someone who conducts his education in public. The jazz improviser might similarly be called a composer...
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The Pop Crisis
(April 1975)
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On Music THE POP CRISIS BY BRUCE LOOK The economics of the music business at present is such that a number of big-name performers who have been around for years are practically being forced into...
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Swinging at St. Patrick's
(March 1975)
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On Music SWINGING AT ST PATRICK'S by bruce cook Because the first distinctly American music was the black sacred song, the spiritual, it has been argued that our entire musical idiom-blues, jazz,...
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THE BEST COUNTRY SINGER
(March 1975)
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On Music THE BEST COUNTRY SINGER BY BRUCE COOK Here I sit in a country nightclub, the Stardust, somewhere in Charles County, Maryland. It's not much. The decor is early-middle formica; the...
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Rock Mamas
(February 1975)
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On Music ROCK MAMAS by bruce cook The popular image of the rock 'n' roll woman is that of a supergroupie. Does she sing with a band? Then she must be the lead guitarist's girl. Is she a star,...
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LISTENING TO THE MOVIES
(January 1975)
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XWOn Music LISTENING TO THE MOVIES BY BRUCE COOK Once, in the course of an interview, I told trumpeter-composer Chuck Mangione I felt he ought to try writing music for the movies. He made a face,...
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The Jazz-Rock Bridge
(November 1974)
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On Music THE JAZZ-ROCK BRIDGE BY BRUCE COOK Carole King has a new hit The reigning princess of pop, a songwriter of some talent who sings her own material m rather dreary, uncertain tones, is...
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OUT OF THE DOORS
(September 1974)
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On Music OUT OF THE DOORS by bruce cook The recent death of Mama Cass Elliot under somewhat enigmatic circumstances brings back memories of Jim Morrison of the Doors, and the mystery surrounding...
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On Music
(July 1974)
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REMEMBERING THE MELODY BY BRUCE COOK H n some circles just mentioning the name of music critic Henry Pleasants is enough to start a fight. Why should this routinely cheerful man, who comments on...
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Whistling in the Dark
(June 1974)
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On Music WHISTLING INTHEDARK BY BRUCE COOK p ¦L opular music is waiting for its McLuhan, some daring thinker who will come along and spit out a set of ideas suggesting a comprehensive theory of...
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DEATH OF A BLUESMAN
(April 1974)
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On Music DEATH OF A BLUESMAN BY BRUCE COOK he father of rock and roll" is what they called him, and in this case, it wasn't a press agent's phrase but a statement of simple fact. For one...
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The Jazz Odyssey
(March 1974)
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On Music THE JAZZ ODYSSEY BY BRUCE COOK I was once present at one of those scenes that leap out at you with such dramatic clarity they seem to be part of some larger plan, somebody's movie...
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Dylan in the Flesh
(February 1974)
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On Music DYLAN IN THE FLESH BY BRUCE COOK When the slight, droopy-shouldered, fuzzy-haired performer shambled onto the stage of Washington's new Capital Centre arena at Largo, Maryland, maybe it...
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On Music
(January 1974)
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On Music THE AMERICAN CHANSON BY BRUCE COOK CRITICS OF American popular music (myself included) often seem terribly eager to demonstrate its influence in distant parts of the globe and on exotic...
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The Cities Go Country
(November 1973)
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On Music THE CITIES GO COUNTRY BY BRUCE COOK I remember climbing into a New York taxicab not long ago for the ride out to La Guardia Airport and being surprised to hear the twang of country music...
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Playing a Narrow Groove
(October 1973)
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On Music PLAYING IN A NARROW GROOVE BY BRUCE COOK Like anyone who pretends to criticism, I have a pet theory. The categories in American music, it seems to me, are breaking down, and by the time...
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Cook, Clara
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COOK, MERCER
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Cook, Thomas I.
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Cooley, Oscar
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COOMBS, ORDE
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COONEY, TERRY A.
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COOPER, ALAN
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CORDON, WILLIAM
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Corey, Lewis
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Correspondent, a New Leader
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