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...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
There's music in the air ... there's music in the hills ... there's music by the river ... there's music in the air-conditioned library. As a matter of fact, the interested Summer School student, whether his preference lies with J.S. Bach, with D. Brubeck, or simly with moonlight and grass, can hardly fail to find the musical interludes he is looking for during the months ahead...
Besides these three stories the rest of the issue doesn't seem to matter so much. I think the best thing to say about Jonathan Kozol's little piece of satanism is that he has given his people wonderful names: Brubeck, Euclid, Castrato. The poetry in the issue is almost uniformly hard to remember. In the best of the lot, Epitaph for a Young Athlete, F. L. Seidel clothes his single small joke in pretentious language. While the only image of David Ferry's The Late Hour Poem is more ludicrous than striking, Nina Castelli's The Coquette concludes, with...
Most inappropriately for this weekend, Boston Jazz has nearly forgotten the Tiger Rag. It has passed beyond the traditional stage of Benny Goodman and Arty Shaw, discarded Old Dixie, and is approaching the cooler, intellectual cock-tail jazz of Dave Brubeck and Lee Konitz. The Princeton cats may be disappointed...
...diverse club is plush Storyville, which frequently features such performers as Dave Brubeck and "Wild Bill" Davison (appearing next week). Its range of transient musicians (which has also included ballad-singer Josh White) and the club's usual minimum puts Storyville in its own special class, although its present show is very similar musically to Boston's new rhythm form...