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...play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when he heard Howard's fast-breaking, dissonant orchestral score. "It's O.K.," said Alto Saxman Paul Desmond. "Everything's out of tune...
...course. To all these good people, and to the Cottons and Mathers and Longfellows and Frosts, and to the Ivy League Colleges and the lesser lights, we offer our greetings for Thanksgiving Thursday. All hail to the well-basted Turkey! Let the gourmands sit up and the feasting begin! Desmond Stone...
...Trolley Song (Dave Brubeck Quartet; Fantasy 45 r.p.m. single). One of Pianist Brubeck's and Alto Saxman Paul Desmond's most popular numbers, unmasked. One side of the disk has the finished product; the other shows how it was put together in rehearsal. "Hard to keep up," murmurs Dave as he fingers a tricky accompaniment figure. "Listen,'' he warns his combo. "If I'm going to play this, boy, I want you guys in on the beats you're playing as hard as you can play . . . umpeta-pah, umpeta-pah . . ." The bass man thumps...
...Desmond (Fantasy). Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who is usually heard with Dave Brubeck (TIME, Nov. 8), teams up with two other combos on this plaintive and appealing disk. On one side, he infuses his pure, sensitive tones into a handsome vocal fabric (by the Bill Bates Singers). On the other is a quintet, including amiable Trumpeter Dick Collins and Tenor Saxophonist Dave Van Kriedt, who composed such originals as a prelude (Baroque) and fugue (But Happy...
Play Me Hearts and Flowers (Johnny Desmond; Coral). The only possible explanation for this item as a bestseller lies in the slightly revolting appeal of a grown man asking for tears...