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Until he was 16, Pianist Gulda joined his long-haired colleagues in a general sneer for jazz. But he found himself listening to records of Count Basie and Duke Ellington, and gradually his attitude changed. Last year, between concert tours (he has played four times in Carnegie Hall), he organized a group of musicians in Vienna, wrote out jazz-style counterpoint for them and made a series of broadcasts. American Jazz Buff John Hammond, who had a significant part in the careers of Basie and Benny Goodman, listened to off-the-air recordings and flipped for joy. He helped Gulda...
...Time for jazz," says the deep voice carefully. "Time for jazz," echo tens of thousands of loudspeakers around the world, as the strains of Duke Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey...
...single works, e.g., Vibrations, he daringly switches from one kind of rhythm to another, from squirming to slogging to swaying to trotting, but somehow the jazz feeling remains. Vibraphonist Charles, not content with rhythmic exploration, exploits harmonic possibilities developed by Duke Ellington, uses dissonance to achieve color and mood rather than sheer shock. The album ranges from familiar (Nature Boy) to far-out (Lydian...
Blue Rose (Columbia). An inspired teaming of Songstress Rosemary Clooney and Bandman Duke Ellington. The Duke's crew is in a lush mood, and Rosie sings her swingingest-despite the fact that she sang the lyrics on the West Coast and he played in Manhattan. Taped at her best, in such famed Ellington originals as Mood Indigo and I Got It Bad, she actually sounds like that late princess of vocalists, Ivie Anderson...
...Duke Ellington was back in Manhattan last week, and jazz fans went to look him over at Café Society. The glad word from that echoing Greenwich Village cellar was: the Duke is riding high again. He displays a growing habit of holding earnest conversations with onlookers while playing the piano, and of even leaving the bandstand and meandering back just in time to give the final cutoff. But his band is practically reborn...