Word: combos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yoga. Marlon's physical co ordination is equal to almost any task his imagination sets. He can play the bongos well enough to take a Saturday night seat in a Latin combo. He can box and fence and do an interpretive dance with all but the pros, and he has mastered enough yoga to demonstrate an exercise in which the abdominal muscles are rotated in a flowing movement around the navel...
Jazz Goes to College (Dave Brubeck Quartet; Columbia LP). Collective improvisation (gathered on a recent campus tour), sometimes rowdy, sometimes reflective, by the greatest jazz combo on records. Brubeck's piano leads the new trend toward serious modern music while preserving true jazz feeling: Paul Desmond's alto sax sings with plaintive joy; Joe Dodge's unfettered drumming and Bob Bates's bass give the whole thing a driving beat. Last week this one was, to the squares' surprise, outselling Liberace...
Blue Moon (Duke Ellington & His Quintet; Capitol). The Duke tries a small combo for this fevered version. Jimmie Grissom sobs out the vocal...
Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...
...drama in this case is provided by suggesting that Miller's efforts to get a good combo together were really rather like Beethoven's early struggles. The problem of the actor is solved with a beautiful piece of sustained mimicry by Jimmy Stewart. A subtle makeup job has slightly altered his mouth without causing it to seem unlike Jimmy Stewart's. With that for a start, Actor Stewart has managed all along the line-in walk, talk and conducting-to effect a graceful compromise of gesture that should please both Miller's public...