Word: brubecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprise, the festival's standout was the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Blending classical and jazz traditions with a masterful touch, Milhaud-trained Pianist Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) and his mates (Eugene Wright on bass, Joe Morello on drums, Paul Desmond on alto sax) made each number sound like a theme and variations. The quartet usually started with well-known tunes (These Foolish Things, St. Louis Blues), then varied the tempo (from 4/4 to 5/4 and back to 3/4) as it injected its own sometimes loud, sometimes soft designs. The solo lead flew like a badminton bird from...
Most of the groups that followed showed their adherence to the Brubeck style. Among the best...
...audience kept its manners within the new tradition-cool and calm. There were no wild cheers, no stomping, no whistles-just a steady, heartfelt applause. Jazz was growing more mature, and so was the audience. When a pair of teen-agers started whooping it up over a Brubeck rendition, yipping "Go man, go!", a well-dressed young Negro sitting in front of them turned and snapped: "Have some respect, won't you, please...
...Russians find out? Simply by taping everything they hear over the Voice of America and by smuggling records through Poland. In literally dozens of homes, the U.S. visitors found big tape collections; one Moscow physicist, who plays "a real cool saxophone." had everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Dave Brubeck and Sarah Vaughan. Poorer musicians who cannot tape or smuggle records cut their own homemade disks on discarded X-ray plates. "We saw one," says Mitchell, "on which you could still see somebody's bones...
...boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie was talking for fear she would miss a joke. (Now the cash registers have...