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...present a more spectacular program than the single Houses could handle financially, Eliot, Quincy, and Winthrop decided to join forces. On Friday, May 12 from 8:30 to midnight the three will host dancing in the Freshman Union to the "vibrating soul of the Chambers Brothers and the groovin' sound of the Outsiders." The inspired blues of the Brothers alternating with the "Time Won't Let Me" sound of the Outsiders promises to set the somber Union ringing...
...Take the basic position of the Boston Monkey. Bob and weave your head and move your hips in a groovin' manner." Now you're doing the Philly...
Dapper and erect at 58, Hawkins dominates the bandstand. Body swaying slightly, he shuts his eyes as he uncoils his long, looping solos with their artfully building figurations, their insistently driving rhythms, their soaring air of abandon. In such numbers as Groovin' or Moonglow, Hawkins' sax capers in a loose-jointed way that mirrors the musician's pleasure; in Think Deep, say, or When Day Is Done, the style remains as virile as ever, but the tone becomes even warmer and more open-throated-mellow in a manner that Saxophone Inventor Adolphe Sax (1814-94) would never...
...need some groovin...
...Hampton Hawes Quartet; Contemporary, 3 LPs) seems designed to prove Composer Babbitt wrong, and to show once again that real jazz must be improvised. Pianist Hawes, Guitarist Jim Hall, Bass Player Red Mitchell and Drummer Bruz Freeman turned up at the studio one night and piled into Jordu and Groovin' High, and from there on "we just played because we love to play." The result is one of the few genuine jam sessions on LPs. The quartet offers some effervescent readings of blues and ballads, including four numbers composed on the spot by Pianist Hawes. For listeners...