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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is no mean feat. In the man-eating jazz business, those musicians who survive to enjoy advanced age have usually developed a ring of impregnable defenses which make it difficult for anyone, especially young white filmmakers, to get too close. Viewers saw Count Basie's legendary reserve during an appearance on 60 Minutes last year. His laconic performance--"Drugs? You can't use drugs and play jazz. Maybe rock musicians can, but jazz musicians, never"--was a model of Spartan deportment. Ricker quickly learned that direct questions would yield direct answers--"yes," "no," or on occasion a poetic...
Ricker uses vintage Kansas City material sparingly enough to leave his audience hungry for more. Sublime recordings of "South" and "Moten Swing" by the Benny Moten Orchestra, descendant of the Oklahoma City Blue Devils and ancestor of the Count Basie band, play under the opening and closing credits; the only other period music accompanies the brief snippets of antique footage--Basie, Turner, Young, Parker--that pepper the body of the film. These are truly gratifying. "We were doing rock and roll before anybody heard of it." Turner grumbles. We have all heard this sort of talk before...
...Eagles' sophomore pitching star, John Cooper, didn't keep Harvard off the basepaths, but somehow prevented the team from scoring a run. The Crimson left 12--count 'em, 12--men on base, and frustrated freshman pitcher Bill Larson's (2-2) bid to become the squad's first three-game winner. Harvard falls to 6-4 overall, though the more important Eastern League mark remains...
...bright little guy, you catch things other people miss altogether. You look out of those eyes, and what do you see? A sick world... A chaotic world, spastic, anarchic, deity-deficient. People tell you you've got a future, but the only future you can count on starts six feet under...
...will know when baseball will resume after the batboys collect the bats on May 21. But as the principals bicker and claw, just remember this: if Bowie Kuhn and his cronies come to your house for dinner, count your spoons before they leave...