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...main events of the festival are four evening concerts to be held tonight through Sunday night. Except for Sunday's concert, scheduled for 6 p.m., all the concerts will begin at 8 p.m. The concerts will feature over thirty different jazz groups, including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson...
...late Django Reinhardt, but no American company records his music, and his following here has been nourished strictly by reports from Paris. Oscar Peterson went to France and gave up a tour of Provence to spend six smoky nights in the Club St. Germain listening to Solal. Duke Ellington heard him in Paris and immediately pronounced him a soul brother. Jazz-Hot found in his music "a fireworks of musical refinement," and Downbeat passed the word along...
...then, with a cry of "Bebop!" he spins into a rush of the crashing, dissonant chords that distinguish his style, but some nights he scarcely plays at all. Powell's days as a creative musician seem over now, but he is still a masterful pianist. Duke Ellington, who recorded an hour of his playing for Reprise Records early this year, says Powell is playing as well now as he did years ago when he made the series of Verve and Blue Note recordings that became a guide to a whole generation of jazz pianists. He will tour Sweden...
...captured the sound of its blue notes-the appoggiatura tones that mimic the human voice in lament-and others have used its reiterated play-song melodies. But even among jazzmen, the only composer who has consistently written good jazz for orchestral players without merely repeating George Gershwin is Duke Ellington, and Ellington's "classical jazz" swings only because it is safe, sensual music. "We're going to do this thing," he has said in a little lecture on swinging, "until your pulse and my pulse are the same." His genius is mainly in his knowledge of the dynamic...
...Ellington's compositions for jazz band and orchestra usually stay within a concerto grosso form that lets the band handle the jazz, while the orchestra plays its own fiddle. After a recent Ellington concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Critic Leonard Feather coolly dissected the Duke's Night Creatures concerto: "Ellington played jazz, and the orchestra played classical music. If you put rubies and diamonds on the same string, you don't have a necklace of novel stones-just diamonds and rubies...