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There was something in Walter Paepcke of the old-fashioned drummer: he could sell almost anything to anyone. But it was his special virtue that he was also a man of deep concern. "It seems to me," he would say with unembarrassed directness, "that there is too much emphasis on material success today. Businessmen have a responsibility to art and other fields of life." The observation was hardly new, but Walter Paepcke was determined to do something about...
...drummer was from the jazz caves of Broadway, the skins from the jungles of Nigeria, some of the audience from the green hills of Rhodesia. But the message needed no translation: when Drummer Carlos ("Potato") Valdes started slapping the taut "talking" drums in a syncopated rhythm, eyes rolled, lips moved, bodies swayed in time to the beat. Had the air been a little bluer and the babble a little louder, it might be any weekend night back at Manhattan's Village Vanguard...
...right on believing just the same. Last week flags on U.S. Government buildings, ships and embassies flew at half staff by presidential proclamation to honor the death of the last of the Civil War veterans. And Texas rolled without a hitch into the carefully preplanned ceremonies of "Project Drummer...
...Little Drummer Boy (Johnny Cash; Columbia). One of the hitherto unreported visitors to the manger, it seems, was Country Singer Cash, bearing a tom-tom. In his sowbelly accent he recalls what happened: "The ox and lamb kept time/ I played my drum for Him/ I played my best for Him/ Then He smiled...
...Sextet, a well-established jazz combo that got a big hand and rated it. Trumpeter Miles Davis,* who years ago launched in New York what became known as "West Coast jazz," groups together some of jazzland's most gifted performers (Pianist Wynton Kelly, Alto Saxophonist Julian-"Cannonball"-Adderly, Drummer Jimmy Cobb, Bassist Paul Chambers, Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane), has rehearsed them to play an original repertory (jazzed-up ballads in classic form) with the cohesiveness of a chamber music ensemble...