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Jimmy Smith is making a week-long stand next door at the Jazz Workshop, the best jazz place in town. Smith goes way back--he got his start playing organ in the bop era, and is now arguably the best jazz organist around and certainly one of the most durable. His "Hootchie-Cootchie Man" and "Got My Mojo Working" are classics. Smith usually plays in an organ-guitar-drums trio, but the personnel varies. Along with Watson, this sounds like the week's best music bet. July 1 through 7, call 267-1300 for times here and at Paul...
After a couple of inane digressions into the Forties came the highlight of the show -- "Take a Letter to Maria." Taken from AM radio teeny bop, the Muzak version of this 1971 pop best-seller was actually an improvement on the original. Of course, that's not saying a great deal, but the Muzak arrangement created a surprisingly tolerable piece...
...founders o f be-bop in the 1940s. Now Dartmouth has asked Dizzy Gillespie to become a professor of music. For Gillespie, 55, and for a generation of jazz musicians, this recognition of the cultural importance of jazz was "a long time comin'." Added Dizzy, who is currently playing in Belgium: "A lot's changed since I began. A jazz musician can play with symphonies now. Jazz will be the classical music of the future...
...days after arriving, he landed a job with Ben Webster's band. Soon he was playing with such performers as Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Finally he established himself as a soloist in Manhattan's plush East Side nighteries as well as clubs on the bop frontier of "The Street" (West 52nd Street...
...articulate spokesman for jazz, Taylor is annoyed by the fact that jazz musicians tend to be perversely uncommunicative about their music-witness Parker's off-putting bop lingo, or Louis Armstrong's famous line: "If you got to ask what jazz is, you ain't got it." Says Taylor: "Every chance I get I try to set the record straight. I say, 'Look, I'm not apologizing for this music. I think it's something to be very proud of and I want to tell you about it.' " Beginning next week at Manhattan...