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Oscar Pettiford: Last Recordings (Jazz-land). Mementos of Bassist Pettiford's inventive mind and agile technique, cut shortly before his death...
...established jazz combo that got a big hand and rated it. Trumpeter Miles Davis,* who years ago launched in New York what became known as "West Coast jazz," groups together some of jazzland's most gifted performers (Pianist Wynton Kelly, Alto Saxophonist Julian-"Cannonball"-Adderly, Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Bassist Paul Chambers, Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane), has rehearsed them to play an original repertory (jazzed-up ballads in classic form) with the cohesiveness of a chamber music ensemble...
...White, in all fairness, was nearly beside himself with misery resulting from poor health and financial difficulties. Only towards the end of the performance and during an instrumental blues interlude with bassist Al Lucas, whose busy, well articulated work here was a high spot of the night, was he in good form...
...concert tour, robust Singer Ella Fitzgerald ran afoul of tight-lipped British customs officials, who held up Ella and her eleven-man troupe for almost two hours on a luggage search (object of the hunt: unspecified contraband), cut open toothpaste tubes, analyzed a bottle of vitamin pills belonging to Bassist Ray Brown, tried to probe the large (225 Ibs.) person of Songstress Fitzgerald. Furious, Ella shouted: "I've been a million places but never saw anything like this!", later calmed down over the reaction of her first audience, which yowled for encores, went home only when Pianist Oscar Peterson...
...current English tour Rock 'n' Roller Haley has reaped the profits of the craze. Haley and his Comets played to packed houses for four days in London, are now zooming through the industrial cities of the north. At one rocking session Bassist Al Rex was so carried away by the shrieks of 3,000 fans he ripped his pants straddling his big fiddle, played on anyway. Haley's disk of Rock Around the Clock has become the first record to sell a million copies in Great Britain. And even the more dignified of the British papers have...