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When Stan Getz and his cool tenor made the scene in the late '40s, Hawkins was Out with the Ins. But that, too, passed. Hawkins is back In, so busy recording and hopping about the U.S. and Europe that he rarely has time to sit down to listen to his collection of classical records. The secret, he says, is to play the way you feel: "If I felt like climbing, I'd sound like I was climbing a mountain...
FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...
Last week the 21 members of the Board of Parish Education voted unanimously to forget the whole idea. "At the time the course was projected," explained Dr. Arthur H. Getz, a member of the board, "it may have been timely to stress the difference between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, but more recently the emphasis has been upon conversations between the two faiths, and stress is being laid upon understanding each other...
...Newport). Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Ramsey Lewis, Maynard Ferguson, Cannonball Adderly, and Carmen McRae are on the first night, June 30. Count Basic, Chico Hamilton, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Gloria Lynn, and Slife Hampton Perform July 1: Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, the Jazztet, George Shearing, and Eddie Harris take over Sunday
...playing of Les Young; the small jam sessions during World War II made necessary by the wholesale draft; the emergence of bebop and the "soul" of Charlie Parker; the wild, Afro-Cubanism of Dizzy Gillespie; the "cool jazz" of Miles Davis; the influence of Woody Herman and Stan Getz; the recent "West Coast jazz," with its use of flutes and oboes, its emphasis on counterpoint and on writing out all the notes instead of on improvisation; the Jerry Mulligan quartet; and today's "big band jazz." I must single out sax-player Jaki Byard, who wrote many of the fine...