Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE BLUE (Atlantic). A specialist in "soul" like Ray Charles, with whom he played for five years, Alto Saxophonist Hank Crawford performs some of his own pieces (Shake APlenty, Skunky Green) with a small, well-integrated band. Nothing cosmic, just cheerful blues, short, catchy and swinging...
...recent commission hearing, McDaniel and his wife Susan testified that phone hucksters ring their Palo Alto number three or four times a week with pitches for everything from insurance to home repairs. "Insults are useless," argued McDaniel. So, too, are unlisted numbers (now used by 20% of private subscribers in Los Angeles), he said, because they inconvenience friends, often cost more ($6 a year in New York) and still leave pitchmen able to get the number by renting a "reverse" (street) directory from the phone company...
...spare my brother") to the wryly exaggerated Silver Dagger Song, she displayed occasional flashes of bitter humor ("This is a sort of 'Happy Birthday, Mississippi' song," she said, introducing Hey, Nelly Nelly). More important, she exhibited a fine facility for dramatic phrasing and a rich, bell-clear alto voice stronger than Joan Baez' and in some ways more interesting. Her ecstatic audience was not surprised, for Judy Collins only proved in Newport last week what her legions of album-buying fans have known for some time -that she is a mere maid of constant sorrow no longer...
...resources, that although the country is officially bilingual the federal government operates in Eng lish only, that French Canadians are discriminated against in the civil service, and in a thousand other ways. The disaffection has been growing, until today a considerable number of French Canadians want out of Canada alto gether. Separatist groups are clamoring for secession, to the point where a legislative committee is now studying what this would mean to Quebec. Then there are the extremists, who call themselves the Quebec Liberation Army, and have been planting bombs in mailboxes, dynamiting army installations and looting armories...
...pieces Thelonious played at his Philharmonic Hall debut last winter (TIME cover, Feb. 28). The band arrangements by Composer Hall Overton add more than variety; they provide a new and striking dimension for Monk's high-styled melodies. Monk and his men-particularly Phil Woods on alto sax and Charlie Rouse on tenor-rose to the challenge of the big audience and played to make memories. The recording catches the excitement...