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...Heart (But I Broke Her Jaw), wittily in That Was the Freak That Was, and with downright homey good nature in How's Your Mother? For counterpoint, he gives his fans a sensitive and lyrical treatment of Young and Foolish, and a sort of half-pop, half-bop vocal on All Alone...
Died. Bud Powell, 41, modern jazz pianist, who along with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker brought about the turn from swing to bop in the 1940s, then had a series of mental breakdowns after which his phenomenal inventiveness deserted him, though not the percussive precision and inspired phrasing that influenced most pianists of the past two decades; of malnutrition, tuberculosis and alcoholism; in Brooklyn...
...cleverest pop novels suggest subdivisions of the genre. The Piano Sport (Atheneum) by Don Asher, 40, might be called a bop novel. Written by a man who plays funky piano at the Mark Hopkins in San Francisco, the book tells a sprightly story about a cat who plays piano somewhere else in town. Call the Keeper (Viking) by Nat Hentoff, 41, a man-about-Manhattan who writes voluminously about jazz, race and Greenwich Village, is an ingenious pop thriller about jazz, race and Greenwich Village. The main menace is a Negro intellectual who hangs out with jazzbos and cuts...
...Francisco, there is nothing left except Bop City, a 2 to 6 a.m. place where jazz musicians gather after their commercial gigs to take turns playing. In one morning, one might hear 20 or 25 good jazz musicians, all of whom must play low-class music by day in order to live...
Charles Njoku has decided to give his ailing knee a rest. A sore elbow will keep Bop Welch out of the Javelin competition...