Pagt! 16-MELODY MAKER, November 28, 1970 CAUGHT IN THE ACT

Matchless and if you want you can shake Don Rendell's mournful, wildly your head. Seems funny that keening soprano. the basis for sttme of the most The consort stormed through FLEETWOOD MAC necessary blues actually stems "SanCtus," "Psalm 73" in from happiness. which Errol Garnerish blues No one could surely boast piano suddenly popped up over 1 that Faces are musically revolu­ some heavy rhythmns and FL· EE:"::s~~n ~:c m'::~:ia~ :hei~ tionary, because they ain't, " Salvation March " which I by a comparatively unknown they are just pure rockers Peter Mount conducted with a group at their concert here last superbly sure touch. Finillly. It Miss Tuesday, Warm Dust, grossly that'll get you shakln' and your hand clapping and your was ••Behold the Pale Horse," underrated In England but big head heady. , the horse of death from the on the Continent, opened the A more than full house went - Book of Revelation. Garrick show with some of the most In­ wild and shook. and the gig played a brilliantly menacing teresting sounds, an unusual went on and on. " Cut Across solo and leapt up to stir the feature being the use on some Shorty," the lot, honky-tonk, choir into a climax of big band numbers of two organs. Par­ clanging guitar, thick vocals. vocal space music behind the ticularly outstanding were the Fabulous, gay and yet bluesy. soloists. two reedmen, John Surgery and - ROY HOLLINGWORTH ... Throw away your Led Zep­ Mitchell Alan Solomon. By comparison pelin 111 album and wart · for A dulcimer made by a friend in Mac's line sounded dull and the new Jazz Praises album. 0 1 1 to ::::: Big Sur provided the backdrop uninteresting, which was not The message is " Rejoice and J "a 1bum~ :aC.,~E;o~~ helped by some qf the dullest be exceeding glad !" - PETE so much to me that I was risk~ for " Marcie" and a stunning MICHAEL GARRICK ing a lot by going to see the new song, " -1 Could Drink A guitar solos I have heard for a MATTHEWS. lady in person. Case Of You Darlin' And Still long time. Peter Green ls most It's often deeply dis- _ Be On My Feet," dedicated to a felt by his absence? The rest of appointing to see your favour­ man she met during her five the group did little to redeem MIC=~~a~n·~Ar:!:~~co~~~~s~~ ites in the flesh and find that weeks in Crete this summer. pianist - a jaz:r: equivalent of SADLERS WELLS songs which have taken on . a Back to the piano for another !~~n;se!!~d a~~~~9n~s t~~~~ w:~: Thunderclap Newman if you personal meaning are merely new song about " My old man " piano. - ALAN KILBURN. like, always a fresh supply up his sleeve. AN evening at the ballet must items in a routine performance. and her "Woodstock " which , be worthwhile If one can And I ha.d a foreboding that put back the spirit and mean­ At the· 100 club on Monday, hear Stockhausen, Steve Miller , Joni was getting just a little ing so missing from the lnsli:iid the fusion of what Is basically and Santana at the same time. too much 01· a cult figure - the Matthews Southern Comfort ver­ FACES the old Rendell/Carr Quintet Last week, Sadlers Wells pre· lady that most hip chicks would sion. Graham Nash and man­ (Henry Lowther replacing Ian sented the Netherlands Dance like to be and the one most ager Eliott Rober.ts joined her Carr on trumpet and ftugel) Theatre, who performed two guys would like to know. for the sing-along "Circle· plus Art Themen (reeds). new works, " Mutations " and I needn't have worried. She Game " and she closed with Norma Wlnstone (voice) and IS a cult figure, in the sense " Michael From Mountains" G ,DO~ay~~re ::dev;:~~J~l~d t=~ "Twice." The former, a slnu- lillr with his leg, spun the mike bassist Coleridge Goode, with a that she's telling truths in a from her first album. school/church choir from Al~ =~ge:x:f~s!t!~'!s :~of:tio:~~~~C relevant way. But there's none I think It was the most stand like It was a vaudeville dershot seemed a typically Eng­ umbrella, and then scorched culminated .In an unclothed pas of the remoteness that that beautiful, and certainly the JONI MITCHELL: listening to an old friend lish eccentricity - yet true to de deux, was danced to Stock­ may imply. It was like listening most purely enjoyable, solo per­ the thick Marquee atmosphere form, Garrick's Impish t,ouch with what is surely the best hausen's "Telemusik," an ell!c­ to an old friend. She Is, as formance I have ever seen. - magically transformed it into a tronlc composition fun of men­ someone wrote this week, "the ALAN LEWIS. he and his orchestra were back solols·t In the band had a blues voice In England. The powerful vehicle for his com­ acing bleeps and rumbles, and priestess who used to live next with a new programme, seven chance to mix In his own Faces smiled, and Ronnie positions. " Mixture," which contained re· door.'~ different men in the band, and reverential Ingredients. Woods played his blues guita.r, and Lane pumped bass. It's fine ch~~:za~o!unte!he the for:!di~e~~ assuringly conventional sonori­ She looks heartbreakingly a new line-up Of guest singers. After the final standing ova­ ties. vulnerable as she stands In the In essence the programme to have the Faces back home. leaving the audience suddenly " Twice " was a rock 'n' roll spotlight in her peasant dress ELLINGTON tion, Rabbi Meyer Heller pre­ It seems sc{ strange, and so decimated and gazing In was slmllar to that presented sented the Maestro with a Bible, ballet, using Herbie Mann's . and sings open, honest songs by Duke In Coventry Cathedral, absurd that this was .only the amazement as the assembled " Memphis Underground,'' Steve about the men she's loved, the except for the unique parade of on which were Inscribed the band's seventh gig In England ranks climbed on to rows of BILLY Eckstlne pouring his words "Love You Madly" Jn Miller's " Song For Our Ances· places she's been and the heart Into the sublime beauty singers. In addltiqn to those rlcketty Mackeson crates. The tors.'' Santana's " Savor," and things she's lost. She had a mentioned, Trish Turner Hebrew; a wine cup; and a the;t:::g:nea:: o!~nbisitnt'anf:;. first number a three-part Mass, of "Come Sunday" .•. the prayer shawl. To top it off he James Brown's " Sex Machine." little trouble with her guitar same melody returning zo returned to the orchestra for There's nothing pretentious was notable for the emotional It was brief and a lot of fun. tuning and her piano parts and minutes later, sung in Hebrew just this one night, delineating awarded Duke an honQrary Bar about Faces. they are what impac:t of Norma Winstone's but rarely broke away from the at times she forgot her words, by Tony Watkins ..• a 2&-piece the unforgettable strains of Mitzvah. " Tonight," said Rabbi they are, and they do what gorgeous voice - naked and precedence, set in terms of but it only served to make her all-white, apparently all-Gentile •• Heaven," with obllgato by Heller, "you gave us all added they do, and that's it. ~t•s fun, pure enough of tone to pene­ gesture, by West Side Story. - choir singing "Swing Low Norris Turney's melllHuous alto. soul." ;-- LEOt-iARD FEATHER. and If you want you can bop, trate the hardest heart - and RICHARD WILLIAMS. - , m~~~ ~=~~ "Chelsea Morning," Sweet Charlot" under the The sweet, Hoating soprano of " Conversation " and " Cactus guidance of a black director Angeline Butler, a singer heard Tree " then sat down at the . . . Brock Peters, the dis­ brlll!!Hy last year with Count piano for a new song about tinguished black actor, bringing Basie, successfully met th'1' Christmas: then " Rainy Night his .virile bass voice to bear on challenge of " Almighty God House," " For Free," and " The a song Inspired b·y the first four Has Those ·Angels," one of Beach Boys: surf wasn't up Arrangement." Her piano play­ ing is fairly limited: little more words of the 'Bible, " In the Duke's more complex and de­ Beginning, God " .•. Cat An­ manding melodies. result was that the very core of of open-topped cars and principal boy In a panto and than a swirling velvet under­ THE 0 current into which she drops. derson as a: human walllng wall Like all Ellington's sacred see'::::~h th: ~!nbo:~:~~~ their act , was lost and they summers and "Wouldn't It Be clowned about embarrassingly. . . • . tambourine-shaking performances, this evening's of Young America: sun, surf, were forced to rely on other Nice," " Good Vibrations," her crystal clear Images. But 0 her guitar is something else: singers prancing jubilantly up ~ programme put the total sand and some Irresistible assets. " God Only Knows," " I Get gr!~: !~~m!re ath! ~!~c:f~~c;s'? drong and vibrant, full of shin­ and down the aisles of the Syn- compass of the man and his songs that projected happiness. Secondly, the chat by Mike Around " wafting from the proteges, proved uninspiring ing chords and rich textures, a , agogue in a massive, joyous music on display: as writer for Without that natural high­ Love and Bruce Johnston was radio. and lacked Individuality. finall!. Instruments, for voices, com­ school effervescence, they are slow, boring and lacklustre, so W.,ell, they sang these and perfect foil for her songs. nowhere - and their British they were leaning even more If their future shows are not " Big Yellow Taxi " began as These were just a few of the poser of music and lyrics and other specialities. but they all unusual sights and sounds on even of narration. tour opening at Hammersmith heavily on a true Beach Boys came across like clockwork. going to reach the standard of a spoof Rock session with previous years, we will all be • Bonle Moronll! " and Peggy Sunday night at Temple Eman­ The audience, predominantly Odeon last -Friday damaged sound to create a good perfor­ There wasn't any spark. white, but definitely inter­ their reputation. mance. Bruce Johnston bubbled as he better off staying at home Sue" ilnd was followed by uel in Beverly Hills. 'Four playing "Pet Sounds.'' "Both Sides Now," "The Gal­ years .:arller to the day, Duke denominational, was bouyantly First, their sound was Thirdly, the Beach Boys' always does; Al Jardine played lery" and the cruelly effective Ellington had set a precedent receptive to the Ellington way atrocious - and they repeated­ panache was missing. If you guitar with the· furrowed-brow There is nothing sadder than evocation of the nightmare of ' by bringing his music to a of praising God. Harry Carney, ly ignored pleas from the llke their music, you are concentration of a chess a diminishing magic. - RAY city life, "Nathan La Fren"Cer." Jewish house or worship. Now Paul Gonsalves and every other audience to improve it. The perhaps clutching at memories player; Mike Love looked like a COLEMAN.