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...looked the soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great...
...Alto Saxman Paul Desmond's most popular numbers, unmasked. One side of the disk has the finished product; the other shows how it was put together in rehearsal. "Hard to keep up," murmurs Dave as he fingers a tricky accompaniment figure. "Listen,'' he warns his combo. "If I'm going to play this, boy, I want you guys in on the beats you're playing as hard as you can play . . . umpeta-pah, umpeta-pah . . ." The bass man thumps out a sample, and Dave approves: "Yeah! Unh! Zam! I don't wanna hear...
...have to teach, I do it pretty well." This year he will cut his concerts to 30 a year. Says he: "I want to have time for things that are important to me." Among the most important: jazz. This spring he plans to form his own jazz combo in Vienna. Also, Gulda thinks that it may be time to relax a bit. "With my 25th birthday coming up," he says solemnly, "I consider my youth finished." Perhaps the next time he plays in Carnegie Hall he will even play more slowly...
...favorite pop singer (for the first time since 1947) and also as the top male pop record "personality of the year." Other double victories: Bandleader Stan Kenton (top jazz band, election to "Music Hall of Fame"; and Pianist Dave Brubeck (top jazz personality, best instrumental combo...
...combo, n. Small instrumental group...