Word: bop
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...capital's waterfront. In the honky-tonks, they can dig the big beat of the Supremes singing Come See About Me or the kinky cool of Ahmad Jamal's Heat Wave, bop about the bars in their "shades" (sunglasses) and talk "trash" (shoot the bull). The girls of Soulsville -many of them dark-skinned Cambodians or the daughters of French Senegalese soldiers-are less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth...
...Muggsy") Spanier, 60, another of Dixieland's good men tried and true, a cornetist who in the 1920s and early '30s was the rage of Chicago speakeasy society, went on to tour the land with Ted Lewis, Ben Pollack, and eventually with his own Dixieland band, surviving bop and all the new styles until 1964 when ill health forced his retirement; of a heart disease; in Sausalito, Calif...
Jazz ALFIE (Impulse). Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins, best-known from his hard-bop days for a coarse tone and wild, harsh harmonies, has turned urbane and eloquent as composer of his first film score. This record is a series of new arrangements on the original sound track by Oliver Nelson, played by eleven good jazzmen, including Sonny. Alfie's Theme is a little long and ultimately empty, but then, that's Alfie...
...that goes bing, bong, boing, Swurpledeewurpledeezeech! That little masterpiece is played as the TV announcer says "CBS presents this program in color," while CBS's trademarked "eye" goes swurpling across the screen. And who can for get Siday's burpy little tango, beedle-deedle-beep-bop, doo-beedle-beep-bop, which is scored to the rhythmic bubbling percolator in the Maxwell House coffee commercial...
JACK TEAGARDEN (RCA Victor Vintage Series). Buzzy echoes of F. Scott Fitzgerald's jazz era are the seven tracks recorded in 1928-29, along with some later tunes that show the talented trombonist dipping into the bop of the mid-'40s. The sides, featuring Fats Waller, Eddie Condon and Louis Armstrong, are reissued in medium-high fidelity and extra-high vitality. If you like echoes...