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...Book. The big bands seem to be in the midst of a muted renaissance. Oldtimers like Count Basic and Duke Ellington, along with such comparative juniors as Buddy Rich and Don Ellis, have developed large and eager audiences for their gigs and records. None of them, though, have demonstrated Woody's resiliency or adaptability. The style of his current group is a near-symphonic fusion of rock and the toe-tapping, old-gold sound that was the trademark of his earlier bands. Mixing updated versions of old Herman specialities with ear-blowing arrangements of such contemporary tunes...
WITH spirituals, the blues, jazz and all its offshoots, blacks created the basis for American popular music. The list of famous black performers reads like a musical honor roll: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles make hardly a beginning. Despite the success of Motown, the black-owned Detroit record company (the Supremes, the Temptations), black musicians have yet to win a proportionate share of credit or cash. Symptomatic statistics: from 1960 to 1970, of the twelve popular soloists or groups receiving ten or more gold records (signifying sales of $1 million or one million records), only...
...Sunday worship services (the dinner invitations remain the most sought-after in Washington these days). The White House calligraphy staff, responsible for designing and painstakingly inscribing every invitation, have perpetual wrighter's cramp. Those accepting the invitations (and few do not) have witnessed a tumble of talent: Duke Ellington and Andrew Wyeth, Isaac Stern and Leonard Bernstein, Bob Hope and Red Skelton, and the Broadway cast...
...display. In the Nixonian view, artists in the past have been invited to the White House, as it were, to sing for their supper at a party for someone else. Under the new dispensation, the supper will be given to honor the artist himself. Nixon gave Duke Ellington a 70th birthday party last spring, more recently invited Comedian Red Skelton to inaugurate a series of "Evenings at the White House." The Wyeth show and dinner were Nixon's own suggestion, and nobody else...
...bunk, with the caption: "O captain, stop this misery!" ··· He flew the 230,000 miles to the moon, and back. Now Lunar Explorer Alan Bean is as earthbound as a turtle. For a minor infraction of flight regulations while taking off in his T-38 from Ellington AFB, near Houston, the Apollo 12 astronaut has been grounded for 30 days. ··· Wildlife conservationists have declared open season on Gina Lollobrigida. They protest that one of her maxicoats must have used the pelts of ten wild tigers, and that there are only 600 members...