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...West Coasters include such names as Drummer Shelly Manne, 33, Trumpeter-Arranger Shorty Rogers, 29, Saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz, both 26, Pianist Dave Brubeck, 32. At the top of the list stands a skinny (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) 24-year-old ex-Army trumpeter named Chet Baker. He was voted the country's best jazz trumpeter in year-end popularity polls by both Down Beat and Metronome...
Harman came to TIME after five years as a music critic for the New York Times. Among his notable stories: TIME'S cover on Rosemary Clooney (Feb. 23). Harman keeps constant watch for new talent, e.g., Concert Pianist Charles Rosen (Dec. 29), Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck (Nov. 10). He also spends days in his soundproofed, hi-fi-equipped office reviewing the most interesting new records. Musician Harman is often hard on Critic Harman, for this reason: "There's often no way to describe music except by music. Words can be fifth-rate. So my problem is to describe...
...Brubeck's performance, initially scheduled to be in Sanders Theatre, had to be transferred to the second floor Common Room...
...Dave Brubeck plays in a kind of daze of his own: he can never remember exactly what he did during his finest solos ("When I'm playing my best I never know my fingers are there"). But as a man who is conscious of his subconscious, he has decided that his best flights of fancy occur only when he can "get through...
Like many a post-bop jazzman, Brubeck has no name for his style of playing. He just calls it "music...