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...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...
Propelled by his special-formula liquid fuel-brandy with a champagne chaser-Irish Author Brendan (The Hostage) Behan blasted clean out of the Celtic atmosphere, confided to Dublin drinking partners that he would like to live in the U.S. "It's a very free place to write in," he explained, "and there's the advantage that no one knows what you're writing about anyway...