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...happy crowd which packed the roomy Quincy House dining hall, the evening's high point was the performance of the Blue Notes, a sextet which won first prize at the borschtbelt jazz festival at Grossinger's last year. The Blue Notes, four of whom are also in Gary Berger's band, played five jazz standards with astonishing competence; there arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument...
...Gary Berger's big band both opened and closed the concert. This fifteen piece ensemble has acquired a lot of polish in the past few months and is now as good as many professional bands. Their first set was their best: four tunes, all of them good, all of them played slickly and excitingly. Their closing session--two songs from West Side Story--wasn't bad, but those Johnny Richards arrangements, especially Maria, are a little too much for the band at this point. A jazz ballet by Ciji Ware and Dean Stolber, accompanied by Berger's band, closed...
...jazz concert Friday will feature Gary Berger's Big Band with vocalist Liz Fillo, the Blue Notes, and the Peter Loeb Trio. It will also include a jazz ballet to Stan Kenton's arrangement of "West Side Story" danced by Ciji Ware '64 and Dean Stolber...
Eliot House is sponsoring "The Dance," with Gary Berger's Big Band. The Whiffenpoofs and the Krockodiloes will sing during intermission. The price is somewhat higher: $4; the dance begins...
Anticipating a torrent of corrections from local jazz buffs, I would like to apologize here and now for consistently misspelling the name of the vocalist with the Gary Berger band in my review yesterday. Her name is Liz FILLO, not "Filo." Mea cullpa...