Word: elvin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours a week of religious instruction given in high schools. A shocking idea, implied the doctors, insisting that Christian doctrine, especially as it applies to adultery, must be stressed even more as just about the only way to stem growing sexual license. Said one of the signers, Dr. Sigurd Elvin: "Young people in Sweden are not happy. They lack the Ten Commandments in their upbringing...
Within each bag, imitation of the "daddy" spreads through the ranks like summer fires. Trumpeters try to play like Miles Davis. And hold their horns like Miles. And dress like Miles. Bassists imitate Charlie Mingus or Scott La Faro; drummers, Max Roach or Elvin Jones. Sax players copy Sonny Rollins or John Coltrane, who is presently so much the vogue that the sound of his whole quartet is being echoed by half the jazz groups in the country...
...engaged" jazz that is a strong and sharply protesting comment on the Negro in America-his sound is a shriek, a cry, a noise from the streets. Here, with six of his own compositions, his message is as unmistakable as a punch in the stomach. On drums is Elvin Jones, whose cruel talent it is to force from other musicians more music than they know is hidden in their horns...
...more satisfying freedom. Coleman and Guiffre both now play atonal jazz, and Miles Davis defected with his discovery of the "interlude," a four-or eight-bar figure laced into a song between phrases. Davis sometimes plays one dominant chord throughout a 16-bar interlude, making only rhythmic variations. Elvin Jones, the most richly inventive of the modern drummers, plays highly abstract polyrhythms that leave the old eight-to-the-bar style of jazz drumming far behind...
...Jones brothers. And he still prefers playing with his old townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...