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...into intense twangings, and the carefully manipulated drone of feedback from his amplifier. Through it all run echoes of the blues and country music he learned as a boy in Texas, the rock he played with a group called the Free Spirits, even the gypsy airs of the late Django Reinhardt. A dropout from the University of Washington (where he was studying journalism), Coryell believes in embracing all musical styles: "If music has something to say to you -whether it's jazz, country blues, Western or hillbilly, Indian or any other folk music-take it. Never restrict yourself...
Rare Joke. Solal is the most admired European jazzman since the late Django Reinhardt, but no American company records his music, and his following here has been nourished strictly by reports from Paris. Oscar Peterson went to France and gave up a tour of Provence to spend six smoky nights in the Club St. Germain listening to Solal. Duke Ellington heard him in Paris and immediately pronounced him a soul brother. Jazz-Hot found in his music "a fireworks of musical refinement," and Downbeat passed the word along...
Djangology (Django Reinhardt; RCA Victor). The late great gypsy guitarist in previously unreleased recordings made in Rome in 1949-50. Three of Reinhardt's four companions are Italian jazzmen-not members of the Quintet of The Hot Club of France, as the album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...
...brand of music." Charlie's father taught his son the guitar, and at twelve Charlie was playing on a local radio show. World War II saw Charlie in Special Services, touring Europe as an Army showman. One day in Paris he met the legendary Belgian-born gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt, then and there decided to become a jazz musician...
...typical show, recorded on tape in Washington to broadcast from ten Voice stations a month later, includes such diverse items as Count Basie's swinging Straight Life, Joe Newman's Midgets, Charlie Parker's Air Conditioning, the Modern Jazz Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly...