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...Modified Bop. The life of a G.I. musician, even in the rear-line luxury of Seoul, would set his Stateside counterpart bawling for Petrillo. After playing for dances until around 11, he is likely to be up at 6 without even so much as a cup of coffee, bouncing over pitted streets to one of the airfields to play ruffles & flourishes and the General's March for visiting brass. In winter weather, instruments have to be doused with antifreeze, and metal mouthpieces have to be kept in pockets until the last minute. Army bands are not required to play...
...recently an order went out standardizing all bands at 42 enlisted men and one warrant officer to bring about "a better utilization of manpower." Even so, each band manages to organize three or four good combos to balance the military marches with plenty of Dixieland, bop and progressive jazz...
This panel will pose such questions as: "What is jazz?" "What is the difference between Dixieland, swing, and modern?" "What is be-bop and progressive?" The three critics will answer these questions from their different points of view, and will talk about jazz as a commercial venture, as popular culture, and as an indigenous folk expression...
Dave Brubecks' jazz quartet will headline a bop concert at the '56 Jubilee Weekend, April 17 and 13, David Baum, publicity chairman of the Jubilee Committee has announced...
Named the Harvard New Jazz Society, the group will "focus attention on all that's good in jazz, not only bop or progressive. Only our prejudice," Wilson stated, "is a catholicity of jazz taste...