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...really needed the favor. Worth roughly $20 million, Hedges runs his enterprises with a profitable smoothness that gives him time to dash from one Havana club to another (he belongs to five) in a snappy Porsche, play golf, fish for marlin. He keeps a summer home in East Hampton, L.I., a Manhattan apartment, a house near some of his Cuban plants, a Havana apartment and a 215-year-old hacienda in Pinar del Rio province. His weekend place outside Havana boasts an airstrip, boathouse, skeet and trap layout, swimming pool, bar, guest cottages, servants' houses. The place is called...
Whether they splash haphazardly or brush minutely, abstract expressionists have one basic common bond: a conscious disregard for subject matter. Yet this week, at the generally abstract Signa Gallery in East Hampton, N.Y., a show of oils (and a few sculptures) by abstraction's top disciples is grouped under one unifying theme of content-"The Human Image...
Jean Dubuffet, the only Ecole de Paris painter whose painting philosophy they felt matched their own. Their final choices ranged from Elaine de Kooning's near realistic portrait of husband Willem to the abstract Black Forms by East Hampton's John Little, in which a human form can be seen with some imagination...
...sing hymns with her grandmother. At 13 she was singing at the Eldorado, a big Negro ballroom, and after the family moved to Seattle, she became a regular with local bands. She went on tour with Bumps Blackwell's band, then with Johnny Otis, finally with Lionel Hampton, who took her to Manhattan. For a while she had a "steady gig" at a Greenwich Village spot, but she never attracted real attention until she went to Sweden in 1956 with an "allstar" jazz group headed by Trumpeter Rolf Ericsen. The Swedes loved her and mobbed her concerts. When...
...Night Session (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...