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...putting his piano playing down," says Dizzy Gillespie, "but he's a better writer than a pianist." Gillespie was talking about Argentina's Lalo Schifrin, 37, who used to jam with Dizzy's band in Birdland days. Today Schifrin is widely accepted in Hollywood as the most inventive composer of movie scores in the business. Since quitting the Gillespie quintet in 1963 to try his luck with films, he has scored 21 features (Cool Hand Luke, Bullitt), three TV serials (including Mission: Impossible, with its pulsating, wide-open jazz theme) and half a dozen TV specials. Almost...
...dinner for Bob Hope at the Washington Hilton, presented the comedian with a plaque commending him for his entertainment of U.S. servicemen. "It's nice to be here in Washington," said Hope, "or, as the Republicans call it, Camp Runamuck. It's nice to be here in Birdland." The President was equal to the occasion. Hope, he said, "is an actor who isn't, as far as I know - at least now - running for public office. And he is a frequent visitor to Viet Nam who has never been asked to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations...
...York, hardly a decent jazz club has survived. The two most exciting experimental jazz places in the Village--The Speakeasy and The Jazz Gallery--have disappeared. The Village Gate often has folk music. And even Birdland featured canned music for a while...
...which was cut out of the Broadway production, but makes a showpiece for Wayne Shorter's quicksilver tenor sax. The ten-member band, backed by Drummer Blakey, works such solid changes on the textures and rhythms of the score that it seems to come from Birdland rather than Broadway...
...well, Powell has long been the unchallenged master of the jazz ballad. The extraordinary virtuosity and spine-chilling passion that gained him that title years ago were only flickeringly evident at his Birdland opening. But his audience vociferously agreed that he was still a master, his performance a giant step up from limbo...