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Jazz is no newcomer to the U.S.S.R. It has just been on a long vacation. In 1925 pudgy New Orleans Saxophonist Sidney Bechet gave Moscow its first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died...
Stern lets his camera roam, picking up the boats reflected in weird patterns on the rippling water of Newport Harbor, a sedate matron startled by the sudden appearance of an amateur brass combo, or a bartender's fruitless battle with explosive beer bottles. The music is well-integrated throughout, reflecting the tasteful editing of Stern and Aram Avakian. The cumulative effect is excellent...
Devoted to an art that his dictator father proscribed as decadent, Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 33, has long kept his political opinions to himself. Last week, temporarily diverting his attention from the combo he fronts in a new Rome nightclub, Romano finally admitted his belief that in most respects Papa knew best. Said he: "I would be a Fascist now or at any time in the past. Though I was brought up in a particular environment, I'm a Fascist in logic and conviction as well as in sentiment." He thinks that Italians were lots jollier under the Duce...
...half the evening.) He filled us in on some of the details of amateur jazz on the East Coast, and then proceeded to introduce the group. Apparently it started just for fun in 1953, and it's been strictly Dixieland for four years or so. It was the combo's first appearance at Harvard...
...acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub circuit. Two fair blooms of Scandinavian beauty-Sweden's Princesses Birgitta and Désirée-were due in the U.S. this week for a ten-day round of social and ceremonial hoopla that had hostesses atwitter, eligible bachelors...