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Best jazz performance-For a small group, the Ramsey Lewis Trio's The 'In' Crowd (Cadet); and for a large group, the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Ellington '66 (Reprise...
...radically beautiful church had risen beside the ruins of the old cathedral bombed out in 1940, "History has given us a chance to experiment, but we're not banging cymbals and drums." Maybe not then, but some distinctly unconventional sounds were issuing from Coventry last week as Duke Ellington, 66, staged the European premiere of his jazzy Concert of Sacred Music, swinging out on the steps of the chancel beneath Graham Sutherland's tapestry of Christ in Glory (TIME cover, Dec. 25, 1964). "There's a story of the man who accompanied his prayers by juggling because...
...STROLLIN' '20s (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Langston Hughes's memento of Harlem, with Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll and Duke Ellington...
ANATOMY OF POP: THE MUSIC EXPLOSION (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Tony Bennett, the Dave Clark Five, Duke Ellington, the Supremes, Richard Rodgers, Gene Krupa and Billy Taylor in a joint lecture on the Big Beat...
Apart from pro football, in fact, there is mighty little that churches will not present these days for the greater glory of God. Last week CBS put on an hour-long concert of ecclesiastical jazz by Duke Ellington and his orchestra, video-taped at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. The Southern Baptists, besides their soap-operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major...