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...composer, Kraft, 44, obviously is not afraid to be bold theatrically. The huge rear screen, on which the films were projected, was not the only innovation. At the end of the first movement, Kraft provided a brief interlude of jazz in which a solo violinist and snare drummer were picked out by spotlights in the darkened hall. Then at the end, he bid the audience a cheerful adieu with the rippling tinkle of an offstage jazz quartet...
JIMMY SMITH: I'M MOVIN' ON (Blue Note). A peerless organist, Smith deftly fingers and foots his way through some of the smoothest soul this side of Albert Schweitzer. Neatly propelled by Drummer Donald Bailey and spelled by Grant Green's guitar solos, Smith handily consoles his listeners in I'm Movin' On and Back Talk, a surpassing burst of blues...
...blend of jazz and pop. Burton's mallets dance over the vibes knocking out masterly, improvised melodies. Occasionally he forays into the fugue, as in Lines, where Larry Coryell's country-blues guitar plays an especially effective counterpoint. Steve Swallow on bass provides a mellow underpinning, while Drummer Bobby Moses adds cymbal-splashes of color. On swiftly paced tracks such as June the 15, 1967, their rapid notes become a braided stream of bright sound...
They come onstage like three hippies and an undertaker's assistant: a blond-mustached leader who looks like a young General Custer in buckskin and beads, a guitarist wrapped in a double-breasted blue jacket and a pageboy haircut, a woolly thatched drummer who appears to be wearing an entire rummage sale-and a gaunt, somber bassist in black mufti. What is more, their music is as motley as their garb. The blues jostle with Bartok. Country and western blurs into flamenco. Rock blares through misty impressionism...
...adds up to strange jazz, and the strangest thing of all is that the Gary Burton Quartet makes it work brilliantly. The four-Vibraharpist Burton, 25, Guitarist Larry Coryell, 24, Bassist Steve Swallow, 27, and Drummer Bob Moses, 20-have been together only since July. Already they have caught on not only with hard-core jazz buffs in clubs from New York to Los Angeles but also with rock-oriented youngsters on college campuses and in San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. Their concert last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Recital Hall confirmed that jazz has found two major...