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...highlight of Friday night's concert was undoubtedly the band's performance of Duke Ellington's challenging Far Fast Suite (1966, recorded on RCA-Bluebird). As anyone who has listened to the suite knows, the places referred to both in the titles of the movements and in the music itself are not in the Fat Fast at all, but rather in the Middle East Iran and India-places such as Amad, Istahan, Agra and Delhi. Only the last movement. "Ad Lib on Nippon" is a musical reaction to an East Asian region. Geographical discrepancies aside, the synthesis of Duke Ellington...
...FATS WALLER PIANO SOLOS (Bluebird). There has never been a more joyous jazzman than this two-fisted stride pianist, whose artistry is brilliantly captured here...
SIDNEY BECHET: THE COMPLETE VICTOR MASTER TAKES (Bluebird). THE COMPLETE SIDNEY BECHET ON BLUE NOTE (available from Mosaic, 35 Melrose Place, Stamford, Conn. 06902). Born in New Orleans in 1897, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet was one of the most talented and influential jazz musicians who ever blew a horn. As Louis Armstrong did for the trumpet, Bechet turned the soprano sax into a powerful solo voice. If Armstrong went on to achieve greater fame, Bechet had the more interesting life: affairs with Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith and Tallulah Bankhead; deportation from Britain; gunfights in Paris; and finally, ascension...
...poet named Benjamin Franklin Taylor caught both the metaphysics and, unintentionally, the comedy when he wrote this rhapsody to the phone: "The far is near. Our feeblest whispers fly/ Where cannon falter, thunders faint and die./ Your little song the telephone can float/ As free of fetters as a bluebird's note...
...with his own disillusionments, invites credibility through his own refusal to believe in much of anything at all. And, early on, he drops a crucial hint about what is to come, portraying himself in his nondescript office "while I draft our official whitewash of the operation we called the Bluebird...