Word: bop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard football has finally broken onto the national sports scene. While watching ABC's Monday Night Football, I distinctly heard the master of magniloquence, that prince of prolixity, Howard Cosell say that he might indeed "bop up" to Cambridge today to witness the spectacle of Ivy football...
Last month's release of Roxy & Elsewhere, a live Zappa album, makes the same point: Zappa has not yet made a firm commitment either to commercialism and top-40 rock, or to original, honest music that disregards industry and public pressure to record million-selling albums. "Be-Bop Tango" is among the best cuts on the new record because it typifies Zappa music and Zappa humor. If you listen carefully to George Duke's scat singing, you hear strains of Thelonius Monk's "Straight No Chaser" and a Zappa remark about 4/4 time: "It's a pedestrian beat...
Miles Davis tops off the week. He's playing today through Saturday at Paul's Mall in Boston and is, as everybody must know, the single dominant figure in jazz. He started out as a Charlie Parker protege in the late 40s, playing bop trumpet, and after Bird died picked up a few proteges of his own--people like Max Roach, Herbie Hancock and John Coltrane were all in his band at one time. Miles went from hot to cool, and then in the late 60s back to hot again, and now his music is spacey and heavily rock-influenced...
Jimmy Smith is making a week-long stand next door at the Jazz Workshop, the best jazz place in town. Smith goes way back--he got his start playing organ in the bop era, and is now arguably the best jazz organist around and certainly one of the most durable. His "Hootchie-Cootchie Man" and "Got My Mojo Working" are classics. Smith usually plays in an organ-guitar-drums trio, but the personnel varies. Along with Watson, this sounds like the week's best music bet. July 1 through 7, call 267-1300 for times here and at Paul...
After a couple of inane digressions into the Forties came the highlight of the show -- "Take a Letter to Maria." Taken from AM radio teeny bop, the Muzak version of this 1971 pop best-seller was actually an improvement on the original. Of course, that's not saying a great deal, but the Muzak arrangement created a surprisingly tolerable piece...