Word: balliett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thunderstorm or a subway train. Classically trained, Steig (son of Cartoonist William Steig) hums into as well as plays his amplified flute, mixes shimmering, bluesy cascades of notes with jabbing, rhythmic interjections, sometimes bending tones into piercing dissonances, sometimes dissolving into trills or fluttery tremolos. Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett describes Steig's musical message as "messianic, for it suggests the way out of the gloomy muddle that jazz has fallen into." > Larry Coryell, 24, guitarist in the Gary Burton Quartet. Coryell builds exciting, unpredictable solos with clusters of freshly turned chords, tantalizing silences, sudden vaulting runs leading into intense...
Under Shawn, few deliberate changes have been made in The New Yorker (exception: a jazz buff himself, Shawn has added an excellent jazz column written by Whitney Balliett). Says one New Yorkerite: "Ross was the innovator. Shawn is the curator." Another puts it more harshly: "It's the difference between genius and talent...