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...word, a mediator - between the kids watching his show and the adults walking past, seeing this nonthreatening face and figuring everything was OK. He was prematurely middle-aged; it made sense that his show's title and theme song (Charles Alexandrine's "Bandstand Boogie," as played by Les Elgart) evoked an earlier, less dangerous musical era. He didn't talk with eccentric urgency, like so many of the radio DJs of the time - his only coinages were "IFIC" (from "Flavor-ific," to describe Beechnut Gum, sponsor of a Saturday night show he hosted for a few years) and "gesachtstehagen" (then...
Saturday, November 26 THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In tribute to the big-band sound, "the Great One" will play host to the greatest and their orchestras when he greets Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Sammy Kayeg Les and Larry Elgart, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin and Buddy de Franco (conducting the Glenn Miller Orchestra...
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...
...Wine and Roses, his tone was liquid, and smooth as marble; on Miles Davis' So What, he spat and screamed in a breathtaking solo. Watanbe (who is really good enough to play with anyone) had excellent support: the melodic, unpretentious piano of Brian Cooke, Saltonstall's bass, and Billy Elgart's drums. Trumpeter Ken Houk still has problems making himself understood; but he is moving away from a slavish Miles Davis style and starting to do some interesting tricks with rhythm...
...faster than he can blow, the emotional intensity of his playing is consistently high. The Blue Notes' trombonist, Sam Saltonstall, plays slowly and thoughtfully; there seem to be years of quiet cogitation behind each note. Rounded off by a hard-driving rhythm section (A1 Feeny, John Voigt and Billy Elgart), the Blue Notes are a swinging crew...