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...last 40 years, migrating north to Chicago and later New York and finally exploding world-wide on records. The jazz anyone plays today depends so much on what happened in those years--on the rise of overpowering soloists like Louis Armstrong, the big-city, big-band style of Duke Ellington, the bebop innovations of Charlie Parker, even the European heritage brought in more and more by the Modern Jazz Quartet--that, while young musicians can strive toward a self-consciously primitive jazz style, they cannot duplicate the attitude and style of the working-class men who, in the first quarter...
JORDAN HALL. Handel & Haydn Society. Works by Argento, Milhaud, and L. Mozart. Tickets: 536-2412. Feb. 9, 8:30 p.m. New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra. Schuller conducts Rossini, Villa Lobos, Respighi, Liszt, Ellington, and Morton. Free...
...like a rather reedy clarinet next to the French-horn sound of the older crooners, but he compensates for this with a cunning sense of phrasing that has made him a favorite of many musicians (among those who have happily accompanied him are Count Basic, Woody Herman and Duke Ellington). On a ballad like It Was You, he has a knack of letting the song rise lazily above him like cigar smoke. On standards like Mimi and End of a Love Affair, he is in the jazzy, hold-your-hat tradition. No less an authority than Frank Sinatra once called...
Died. Wilbur De Paris, 72, Dixie land trombonist who played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton during the '20s, '30s and '40s, and then with his own band be came a durable jazz figure on New York City's 52nd Street during the '50s; in Manhattan...
...some young Einstein? Not at all. The speaker was Romano Mussolini, son of Italy's Fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, arriving in New York on tour as a jazz pianist. Young Mussolini, who bills himself as "a legendary name in Italian jazz," says he is a disciple of Duke Ellington and offers a repertoire ranging from Summertime to a syncopated version of O Sole...