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...came later when he studied composition at the University of Southern California, steeping himself in Bartok, Stravinsky and the impression- ists by day, slipping off to play jam sessions by night. After earning a master's degree in 1961, he joined the Chico Hamilton Quintet and switched from alto to tenor sax because "it seemed to be the voice I was hearing. It can be such a bitch, but with it you can draw a line of prancing dolphins...
...Invidious Comparisons. To frame the tests, Carnegie set up an exploratory committee of educators and executives, headed by Ralph W. Tyler, director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. The committee decided to examine 256 population groups, broken down into four age levels (9, 13, 17 and adult); four geographic areas; two income levels; sex; and urban, suburban and rural divisions. This would be done by sampling techniques in which only 5% of an age group would be tested and no single student would be likely to encounter more than a single half...
...LEONARD P. WITTLINGER St. Mark's Episcopal Church Palo Alto, Calif...
ADDITIONS TO FURTHER DEFINITIONS (Impulse!). Jazz, even in its short history, already has a crowded pantheon of dead or moribund "Greats" who can be heard only on 78s or reissues. Not so Benny Carter who, as a Chocolate Dandy in 1929, was one of the pioneers of the alto saxophone. Busy with Hollywood-arranging assignments, Carter seldom plays today; but this new recording finds him as fluent as ever, brightening his own up-tempo compositions (Doozy, Come on Back) with four other ebullient saxophonists at his side...
...Handy and his quartet launched into their opening number. Crash. A microphone toppled over. Handy tried to recover with a spiraling solo, but just as he built to a climax, the roar of a Boeing 727 jet drowned him out. Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash to repair a snapped string...