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...another, from squirming to slogging to swaying to trotting, but somehow the jazz feeling remains. Vibraphonist Charles, not content with rhythmic exploration, exploits harmonic possibilities developed by Duke Ellington, uses dissonance to achieve color and mood rather than sheer shock. The album ranges from familiar (Nature Boy) to far-out (Lydian...
...Under Glass (Starlite LP). Just about the most virtuoso vocal quartet on records, singing a dozen far-out arrangements of those oldies. Some of the music, e.g., Through the Years, is strictly barbershop, of the brush-cut variety. More, e.g., Birth of the Blues, I'm Beginning to See the Light, has a beguiling touch of lunacy...
Progressive Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck has always shown a streak of mysticism about his "far-out" music (TIME, Nov. 8). This week he gave it an airing on CBS-TV's Look Up and Live, where he played the piano and chatted with the Rev. Lawrence McMaster, 26, of the Oxford (Pa.) Presbyterian Church, jazz student and onetime disk jockey. Subject: the "theology of jazz." Excerpts...
...Cover) Pianist David Brubeck, described by fans as a wigging cat with a far-out wail* and by more conventional critics as probably the most exciting new jazz artist at work today, has strong ideas about how his audiences should behave while he plays. There should be no loud joking or talking; no table-hopping; no eating. Drinking, if absolutely necessary, should be done in moderation. "Some people," he says with horror, "plunk a full bottle of Bourbon down on a table right in front of the bandstand-you know the sort that will order a whole bottle." Brubeck does...
...were broke, Dave always seemed to have a buck or two in his jeans." Says California Sage Gerald Heard: "There is energy flowing from him to the people. David recharges people; he fills them with vitality." Says Jazz Promoter Norman Granz, who does not always understand Brubeck's "far-out" music: "He's way out on Cloud...