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...time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat-as the '50s generation discovered it after the cool complexities of bop and progressive jazz...
Father Figure. Hawk reached his peak of popularity as a musicians' musician during the early '40s. But he kept abreast of later changes, from swing to bop to the cooler, lighter sound of the '50s. He also became something of a father figure to young players, whom he entertained in his Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, talking music or baseball and cooking for them (he loved all kinds of beans-and popcorn). Almost always in the background there was the sound of classical music; Hawk loved Bach and Beethoven as much as a strong jazz solo...
...gave up music entirely. Many great musicians did go north--King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong. The New Orleans music they took with them began its metamorphosis in the 20's and 30's, evolving into swing and big band dance music, and later into bop and progressive jazz. Most collectors in the 40's thought that the traditional black jazz of New Orleans remained only on a few early discs as a faded chapter in the history of American music...
...Crazy Dylan flagging down huge trucks on Highway 61, the Automatic Kid, Energy Beam Rocker. He can't catch anything, just hold his collar to his neck and fall back when the wind hits him. Charly Parker smiling, no black revolt for him, it's all very foggy, bip-bop, if you would be so kind as to dig that. But Gerry Mulligan says hello to Monk on the other side of the fence, and Gerry has been electrocuted--his hair stands on end, and he stares as if he believed that there must be some mistake here...
...Harvard basketball team lost its first two Ivy League games over the the weekend, but, perhaps more important, it may have also lost the services of captain Bop Kanuth for the rest of the season...