Word: congas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Ideas of Western Mann (Herbie Mann's Californians; Riverside). Flutist Mann abandons his favorite instrument for one of the least likely of solo instruments-the bass clarinet. The fudge-thick sound has a wistful, funky charm, but often Soloist Mann evokes a fat man in a conga line...
...France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa, who was 30 miles away at Deauville with Fiancee Bettina, watching his nag Shut Up dog it home fourth...
...Adams House Common Room is a dignified place. You'd hardly expect to walk in on a Sunday afternoon and find a gentleman beating on a conga drum. But there was one there this past Sunday with a dozen or so of this friends from Boston's rapidly-growing jazz underground. All were duly authorized, by the versatile Adams House Music society, for a concert of "Experimental Jazz...
...never played together before, they had no choice but to experiment. Sonny Watson occasionally laid aside his alto saxophone and took up the flute. It was barely audible at times, but his few solos proved that the instrument can be used effectively in jazz. John Lewis' use of the conga drum was less novel perhaps-both it was "new sound" to many and very well received. For Alan Miller at the piano the concert was a debut, but his solo in Honeysuckle Rose was easily the highpoint of the afternoon. He had the Brubeck wit, slipping in tunes even from...
...arrived and did some excellent work with a "blocked chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...