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Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
Desmond (Fantasy). Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who is usually heard with Dave Brubeck (TIME, Nov. 8), teams up with two other combos on this plaintive and appealing disk. On one side, he infuses his pure, sensitive tones into a handsome vocal fabric (by the Bill Bates Singers). On the other is a quintet, including amiable Trumpeter Dick Collins and Tenor Saxophonist Dave Van Kriedt, who composed such originals as a prelude (Baroque) and fugue (But Happy...
...rhythm man, but treats his skins, tubes and disks with an uncanny ear for contrasts of color and pitch. Pianist Freeman is an able partner, matching idea for idea, sound for sound. His style falls somewhere between the burbling counterpoint of Lennie Tristano and the swinging drive of Dave Brubeck. An adventure...
Other new pop records: Brubeck Time (Columbia LP). The Dave Brubeck Quartet in a rare, formal studio recording. Saxophonist Paul Desmond is in top form in the tender Audrey, and Pianist Brubeck delivers an angry, driving solo in Stomping for Mili,* while that fine rhythm section sizzles in the background...
...Bridgeport, Conn, police last week banned teen-age rock-'n'-roll dance parties because the dancers "got out of hand." *Named, respectively, in honor of Cinemac tress Audrey Hepburn, af whose mere mention Saxophonist Desmond swoons, and Photogra pher Gjon Mili, who made a movie about the Brubeck Quartet. The title "Brubeck Time" commemorates TIME'S cove story...