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Throughout the early jazz flourish Harvard University revealed a sort of tin ear for syncopated sound. Even with the music inundating Boston, one of America's finer jazz towns, Harvard had failed to pick up the beat. It failed, that is, until University band director Tom Everett organized the Harvard jazz band three years ago. Since its inception, the band has provided a home for lonesome jazz men and big band enthusiasts. Within the last year it has shown admirable skill on the local mixer circuit, and at occasional concerts for other schools...
...free-concert seekers who attended Monday's performance at Sander's Theater heard a Harvard Jazz Band with new spark. Everett's 27 rag tag musicians joined Boston Jazz and Sackbut Weeks (April 29-May 5) in honoring the city's sackbut or modern trombone players with two hours worth of sweet, informal big-band renditions...
...Harvard contingent, however, didn't go it alone. In keeping with the seven day celebration, handyman Everett recruited two of the finest trombone artists playing today: Phil Wilson, trombone teacher at Boston's Berklee College of Music and Woody Herman band soloist in the sixties, and Carl Fontana, one of the best trombonists in the West, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands of the fifties...
...Everett saved his two trump cards for the second act, but he revealed to his attuned audience a series of high card student performers who injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll...
...Chuck Mangione's "Klee Impressions," Everett brought on three additional flutes plus an in-vogue soprano saxophone performance by the versatile Sacks. The mellifluous soloist offset some sluggish French horn work, and left a sweet taste in the listeners' mouths during intermission...