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They called it "A Salute to Eddie Condon," the famed, feisty guitarist who has reigned for some 25 years as public defender of "old style" Dixieland. Staged at midnight in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the event had all the makings for a Great Moment in jazz history. Bob Crosby and Johnny Mercer came in from the West Coast. Woody Herman and his 16-piece band were bussed uptown between shows at a Times Square jazz emporium. All told, 43 musicians gathered to pay homage, many of them the founding fathers of "hot jazz," ragtime's carefree child born...
Eloquent Sermon. It all started a year ago, when the easy charm of bossa nova had been drowned in a din of bongo drums, maracas and raucous studio bands. Getz met with Singer-Guitarist Joāo Gilberto, Brazil's "pope of the bossa nova," and decided to cut one "true" bossa nova album. Gilberto's wife Astrud, who had never sung outside the kitchen before, was enlisted as an afterthought to sing the English lyrics to The Girl from Ipanema that Joāo sang in Portuguese. This spring, when it was felt that the odor...
...Sound. All the best players of the time would drop by to sit in at Minton's. Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Drummer Kenny Clarke and Guitarist Charlie Christian were all regulars and, in fitful collaboration with them, Monk presided at the birth of bop. His playing was a needling inspiration to the others. Rhythms scrambled forward at his touch; the oblique boldness of his harmonies forced the horn players into flights the likes of which had never been heard before. "The Monk runs deep," Bird would say, and with some reluctance Monk became "the High Priest...
Among the band's members are some authentic jazz virtuosos. Sonny Payne is the grooviest of the big-band drummers-to watch, if not to listen to. Alto Saxophonist Marshall Royal, Trumpeter Snooky Young and Guitarist Freddy Green are all heartfelt blues soloists. Bassist Buddy Catlett, the band's newest member, gives the whole orchestra a subtle and highly advanced sense of rhythm. Keenly aware of all these virtues, Basie never lets his audience get a glimmer of the solemn musicianship behind them. "Now a little foot-pattin' music," he announces happily. Then he sits down...
...group was formed in 1956 by Francois Luambo, a lean, goateed guitarist who calls himself Franco and lists his nonmusical recreations as "football, women, and driving fast in my white Thunderbird." Taking their name from a Leopoldville pub called the O.K. Bar, Franco and his crowd have since played in Europe and in every country in West and Central Africa except Ghana. When the "Okayistes" travel in Africa, the President of the host country often places a plane at their disposal. In every capital, crowds of Africans too poor to get inside the club where they are playing...