Word: davises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Evans audience is not large, but it is a distinguished one, including a large share of Evans' fellow jazzmen. What Evans has returned most notably to the jazz piano besides simplicity is the long melodic line, which, says Evans, is "the basic thing I want in my playing...
After college, Evans gigged around, suffered through three unhappy years in the army, only began to win polls and influence people in 1958, when he spent almost a year with the Miles Davis Quintet.
The fireworks were imported from the Riviera. The chartered jet flew in from New York with a cargo of famous stars and freeloaders (a redundancy in part). Zsa Zsa was there, and so was Fashion Model Cristina Paolozzi, famed for her recent bare-breasted exposure in Harper's Bazaar...
MARINE! (403 pp.)-Burke Davis-Little, Brown ($5.95).
Calling HUAC an "engine of oppression," the advertisement defended Lloyd Barenblatt, Chandler Davis, Frank Wilkinson, and Carl Braden, who have served jail sentences "for defying the HUAC's inquiry into their personal beliefs and associations." "Thirty-five others are threatened with imprisonment for this same political crime," the statement continued...