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...Gyrating Gyro-Wheel," and that is probably as good a name as any for the contraption. Two or three times a day at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus has settled in for its spring visit, a British-born performer named Elvin Bale approaches the device, unlimbers its 40-ft. arms and sets both himself and the great wheel into motion. Thus begins what Ringling Impresario Irvin Feld says is "one of the most fantastic thrill acts the show has ever...
Bale, 30, is a fourth-generation circus performer: his great-grandfather was a juggler, grandpa had a bicycle act, and Dad Trevor Bale is an animal trainer. These comparatively tame pursuits never interested Elvin. Even as a child, says his father, "he was always hanging off things." He was-and is-also always dreaming up new things to hang from: the Gyro-Wheel was inspired by a double Ferris wheel he saw in a carnival and the cage toy his son has for his pet hamster. As for his safety, Bale eschews nets but never forgets a cardinal rule...
Dave Liebman and his group Lookout Farm will be staying the week at the Jazz Workshop. When Liebman first started attracting attention with some fine tenor work on Elvin Jones's Live at the Lighthouse, Jones had the audacity to claim that Liebman would be the heir to Coltrane. He's not, but he's damn good, and if his group doesn't play with an overdose of electricity then this saxophonist/music teacher will present a fine weekend jazz alternative...
...this weekend with his sextet and Sandy's in Beverly. I'll never forget reading Frank Kofksy's liner notes on Coltrane's Selflessness album--that's the one with the fast version of My Favorite Things on side two. Roy Haynes was substituting for Coltrane's regular man, Elvin Jones, doing what I think was the finest drum work on any of the MFT cuts that Trane recorded. But in the liner notes, usually reserved for bubbling praise, Kofsky came down hard on Haynes and said he couldn't compare with Jones. He can--he may be better...
...defendants claimed that they were "prisoners of war" and refused until three weeks into their ten-week trial to appear in court. Then they reversed themselves and asked to come to Judge Elvin Sheehy's heavily guarded courtroom. They cross-examined witnesses, and at one point Little lost his temper and tried to throttle a witness on the stand...