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...Stars. From the oldtime start, the music came gradually up to date. Things really began to hum when Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie took the stage with his quintet. Looking bemused and gesturing wildly, he set his cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...
...combos (e.g., Pianists George Shearing, Erroll Garner, Lennie Tristano) plus informal sessions that lasted till dawn. In the afternoon a slim crowd of cats had attended a forum about the origin and meaning of jazz. But the meaning of the festival itself seemed to be that jazz-whether Dixieland, bop or "modern"-more than ever has America's ear. The festival wound up tidily in the black...
...disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that's all"-but his daemon kept driving him, and a year later he had another standout herd. It was a disastrous venture because it was dedicated to the dying bop style and cost him a cool $175,000 before he could break it up. Three years ago, unhappy fronting small combos with his clarinet and sax, Woody Herman was rounding up his Third Herd, by last week had groomed it to top form...
...This band swings more than anything since the bop era began," he says without false modesty. It took hard work to get it that way, and Woody has trouble putting his finger on just what made the difference between the good band it was and the exciting one it became. "It's like one day you get up and it's not the greatest, and the next day you can whip the world...
Dizzie Gillespie with Strings (Clef LP). Bop Trumpeter Gillespie, backed by the Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra, plays with appealing simplicity and delivers some startling riffs, but is given a poor recording...