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Inquiring around, Hélian also found that "in general the American public isn't much interested in bop and progressive jazz . . . The famous Bop City on Broadway is closed up ... I met Stan Kenton and listened to him one whole night . . . Kenton has abandoned his own style* and is playing dance music to keep his orchestra together and alive ... He said, 'You're lucky [in France], You can play jazz. The public understands...
Dizzy Gillespie Plays (Discovery; 2 sides LP). Lost somewhere between the flatted fifths of basement bop and the swooping violins of mezzanine dinner music, "progressive" Dizzy gets his bearings now & then in a spot of good horn-playing...
...York. For the bebop man, Manhattan's Alley's Creative Clothes "The House of Frantic Styles"offered two of its newest and slickest numbers:at $14.95, a knee-length, double-breasted gabardine "Bop Cardigan," with four patch-pockets and no lapels; at $8.95, a pair of "highrise, drop-loop, saddle-stitch, tricky-pocket peg pants...
These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight...
...noise, regular jazz and bop houses are supplemented tonight by weekly Second Avenue jam sessions at the Stuyvesant Casino, 9th St., and the Central Plaza, 6th; last week and fairly regularly Bill Davison, Rex Stewart, George Wettling, Wellman Braud, and Joe Sullivan graced the former, while Hot Lips Page, Willie the Lion Smith, Big Chief Moore, and Benny Morion livened up the latter...