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...when he played in his first basketball game - to the brink of stardom quietly delights the powers behind the global sports marketing machine that the NBA has become, because they helped get "The Big Yi"? (pronounced "E", a la the nickname of hall of fame forward Elvin Hayes) where he is today...
Released for the first time since the original tapes from 1965 were discovered in a closet, these two CDs capture the definitive Coltrane band--McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones--at the height of its powers. The highlights include Coltrane's signature standard My Favorite Things and the 27-min. title track, which features Coltrane at his most febrile, burning through registers in a controlled fury. To listen to these sessions is to experience some of the shock and awe that Coltrane induced in audiences at the time. After witnessing one of Coltrane's gigs at the Half Note...
...investigating whether Greenhouse's allegations of favoritism, first reported in TIME last week, merit an expansion of its criminal investigation into Halliburton for overcharging the Pentagon.) Meanwhile, TIME has obtained a new document that suggests Greenhouse, who is African American and the sister of NBA great Elvin Hayes, may have been operating in a racially hostile environment. Lieut. General Joseph Ballard, her former boss, said in a sworn affidavit that when he was Corps commander, colleagues told him that "members of the upper Corps management made racist remarks" about her and that a senior official repeatedly said he "was going...
...DIED. ELVIN JONES, 76, post-bebop drummer best known for pushing the innovative saxophonist John Coltrane to rapturous heights; in New York City. In the early 1950s he refined his explosive, polyrhythmic style in the fertile Detroit jazz scene, and in 1955 he moved to New York, where he recorded with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. He joined Coltrane's quartet in 1960 and later led the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine...
...DIED. ELVIN JONES, 76, dynamic drummer whose ferocious polyrhythms shattered conceptions of the percussionist's role in jazz and helped push bandmate John Coltrane to new creative heights; in New York City. Jones, who also played with Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus, spent the past three decades touring the world with his Elvin Jones Jazz Machine...