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Lowell Davidson, a junior, contributed a provocative session of his own trio. In his first three compositions, he experimented broadly with time and abandoned the "rhythm section" concept to let bassist Kent Cavler and drummer Bill Elgart improvise as freely as he himself did on piano. The consistent mood of the three pieces was desolation; and the freedom of Davidson's sidemen to go their own ways accentuated the loneliness and solemnity of the music...
Once married for four years to Bass Player Ray Brown, Ella has a son, Ray Jr., who plays football and basketball for Hollywood High School and is a drummer in a combo as well...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...
...Almost every dreamlike painting is set on an undifferentiated desert stage. Bearded sages tote trays of naked dolls on their heads as if bearing man's fate on their minds, while disputing some unknown subject. A balloon bobs over a barren strand carrying a pipe organ. In The Drummer (see opposite page) the images on flaking and fading billboards alternate between stage flats and solid figures in a wistful play of appearance and reality...
JUNIOR MANCE: GET READY, SET, JUMP!!! (Capitol). Julian Clifford Mance Jr. spends little time brooding at the piano. He prefers to swing along triumphantly with Drummer Shelly Manne and a small army of trumpets and trombones full of moxie right behind him. September Song does not respond to their ebullient treatment, but Running Upstairs and Jubilation rightly sizzle...