Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides being an indefatigable woman chaser who didn't care what he mixed with his Bourbon blood, France's Louis XIV was a fatherly figure who did his best to treat his bastards as if they were true princes. Decked out with noble titles, married off to peers of the realm, the royal by-blows took their places in court and kingdom beside their legitimate brothers. Thus raised high by the king's power alone, the king's shadow family was a perfect gauge of his fortunes...
...arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument. His best solo, on Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser, was a honking, exuberant anthology of tenor sax styles, jumping from Johnny Hodges to Ornette Coleman to John Coltrane with deftness and humor. Friedman is strongly influenced by Coltrane, with a little Getz and "Fathead" Newman thrown in, and he has not yet found his own niche...
...Armand Belvisi, 37, is an army deserter and onetime cop who spent four years in jail for stealing $2,800 from a mail truck. Called an inveterate woman chaser in court, he explained placidly to the bench: "Well, I don't smoke or drink...
...reputation as a fast man at taking on sensational cases: when the Beverly Hills cops first arrived at the home of Lana Turner after her daughter had stabbed Johnny Stompanato, Giesler opened the door. But underneath all the star-spangled headlines was a quiet, brilliant lawyer, an ambivalence chaser and not an ambulance chaser, who third-guessed his opposition and won his cases less by theatrics than by thorough and meticulous preparation...
...hors d'oeuvres--sinfonias from Handel's Solomon (a rather obvious choice), and from two Bach contatas (allowing Mr. Voisin to earn his keep). These received a very competent performance from Mr. Woodworth and his orchestra, but one can question their inclusion in the program: Miss Addison needs no chaser...