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...filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear warm, contrapuntal, richly melodic explorations. "We never repeat," says Sam Rivers, founder of Studio Rivbea. "For three hours straight, ideas keep flourishing...
...growth of jazz, however, has not always been so assured. In the 1960s jazz became ingrown and uncertain. Musicians have always regarded each other suspiciously across the generations. In the '30s, Dixieland distrusted swing. In the '40s, swing mocked bop. In the '50s, when people like Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck were experimenting with progressive harmonies and other far-out ideas, many audiences found the music too cerebral...
...guys were really jazzed up for the meet," McCurdy added. It remains to be seen whether the squad can be-bop its way by a talented Dartmouth team on Tuesday...
...Saturday mornings with a junior high school friend and bop into Harvard. The Square was a lot cooler then, more wierd people to stare at, more radical literature to pick up etc.-- maybe it's just that everything's a lot cooler in the eighth grade. After making the rounds we'd head down Boylston St. to Carey Cage. By 11 a.m. there would be about 40 kids gathered around waiting for the guy to come out and dole out the concession jobs. (It was a lot like the dockside scene from On the Waterfront.) There was a real hierarchy...
...sung mostly in clubs, most of them in New Jersey. She built up a reputation as a "musicianly" and controlled singer, but, except for tour dates with Miles Davis in '59 and with Sonny Rollins in '64, has enjoyed only limited exposure. Thirty years ago she was "Betty Be-Bop" Carter. If your memory doesn't go back that far, you can see her at the Jazz Workshop through...