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...Birdland Stars of '57 includes Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughn, and Count Basie in Dionysiac festivities. Sunday at 6:30 and 9:30 in Symphony Hall...
Steve Allen Show (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Guests: Judy Holliday, Count Basie, from Manhattan's Birdland...
...Manhattan jazz den known as Birdland, the seven-man combo was swinging up a storm. Its music had a fine, contrapuntal texture, played with a neatly organized air that is not characteristic of such outfits, and was several degrees warmer than most modern jazz. The leader: Austria's excellent young (26) Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda, making his first professional appearance as a jazzman...
...them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda gather his combo in the U.S., got him booked into Birdland and also for Newport's American Jazz Festival next week...
...pretty as pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked for a two-week engagement in June in Manhattan's jazz den, Birdland, and the Newport Jazz Festival (July...