Volume 46, Number 8 · May 6, 1999
Burt Bacharach Comes Back
By Geoffrey O'Brien
The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection
compilation produced by Patrick Milligan
Rhino, $49.98, three compact discs
Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
executive producer, John Zorn
Tzadik, $22.97, two compact discs,
This is what a cultural resurrection looks like nowadays when the system is really working. The machinery is oiled and the gears properly lined up as a body of once-discarded material is inserted again and permitted to work its way, at first randomly (as a test) and then with increasing calculation, through the layers of the marketing universe, to issue as a collection of shrinkwrapped products to be duly catalogued and appraised in a range of magazines and television shows.
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