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ELVIN JONES, PUTT'N' IT TOGETHER (Blue Note). Drummer Jones, who played with the late John Cohrarie, became famous for his fiery musical duels with the master. With Jimmy Garrison on bass and Joe Farrell splitting three ways on tenor, soprano sax and flute, Jones here uses his flashy technique to inspire, shape and embroider a harmonically free, three-way dialogue. Reza and Jay-Ree brim with bright looping arches of sound reminiscent of Ornette Coleman. Soloing on Kei-Ko's Birthday March, Elvin gets under way with a humorous drum-corps pattern that soon turns into...
...favorite television programs were on during the Democratic Convention. Mayor Daley starred in Garrison's Gorillas, assorted yip-hippies were involved in Run For Your Life. Not to forget the performances of McCarthy and McGovern in Mission: Impossible. Meanwhile, back at the houseboat, Nixon had a Laugh...
Meanwhile, those "unconscious" imperialists, the American Presidents, were exercising the appropriate "Caesarian powers," including the right to initiate wars without asking Congress. As a result, believes De Riencourt, "the United States has gradually become a garrison state." Counting "Pentagon satellite military establishments" in Europe, Latin America and the Far East, De Riencourt reckons that the U.S. has the biggest army, by "relative size," since Rome...
...wooden buildings broke into flames, 100 M.P.s marched into the stockade with night sticks and tear gas. By the time the gas cleared, one prisoner was dead, his skull crushed, 23 were hospitalized, and 35 more needed treatment for lesser wounds. In addition, five guards, including the garrison commander, were in the hospital...
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. A mythic tale of an Irish soldier in the garrison of a penal colony vividly evokes the brutality, courage and grace of 18th century Australia...