Word: cults
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the Lewis and Clark of modern jazz, returned from their first explorations on Manhattan's 52nd Street, other musicians have been following the masters' trails. Their search is more for small refinements than grand departures, and cults of aficionados armed with phonograph records travel in their wake. Thelonious Monk's cult, whispering of Webern, insists that the silences in his music are even more profound than the sounds. Miles Davis' cult, transfixed by his trumpet, says nothing, preferring to express its worship in utter silence. But the cultists that...
Mannered Genius. But the error had been pressed upon him. Convinced that Lewis is Vivaldi's nephew, his cult has urged him into thinner and thinner air since he appeared with his three fellow ascetics in the first Modern Jazz Quartet performances ten years ago. In pursuit of something that sounded agreeably like jazz from the 16th century, Lewis soon became one of the half-dozen important jazz composers, writing such a mannered form of music that his compositions set a whole new tone...
...cult was busy making a mystique of him, and he shunned nightclubs in favor of concert halls, brooded in Europe, and began to bless his four-part tunes with such titles as In a Crowd; Valeria; Wintertale, a trip of the tongue that describes only sketchy excerpts from a film score. Whatever he touched turned out so well that he soon found himself a prisoner of his own achievements. "I hate to sound immodest," he said, "but the quartet has reached a standard so high that I don't see what anyone else can do with small-ensemble jazz...
...cult follows Tommy Flanagan. In almost perfect secret, he has played with all the jazz giants for a half-dozen years, cheerfully accepting their styles, ingeniously enriching them with his own. But with his name still an italic footnote to somebody else's accomplishment, he has developed into one of the best jazz pianists now playing...
...margin over his more conservative opponent, Viriato Fiallo. Bosch's party also won firm command of the legislature, and a clear mandate to put its promised reforms into action. Eight days after the great election there was a clash between troops and members of a weird religious cult in the back country that left at least 23 dead. But that had little to do with politics...