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Saunders Redding, 48, is a good-looking Negro professor of English at Hampton Institute (Va.), one of the nation's best Negro colleges. One spring day in 1952, the phone rang in his office and a voice said: "This is the State Department. Would you be available for a temporary foreign assignment?" Professor Redding was available; the assignment was India. That summer he traveled 25,000 miles through India, lecturing on America to tens of thousands of curious and often hostile students and professors...
...studio. Last week a little of the harvest from those barns was on exhibition at the Woodstock Artists Association Gallery. It made a conservative but sunny display. Most Woodstock painters seem to like picturing pleasant things in more or less understandable fashion. (Advance-guardists go elsewhere, chiefly to East Hampton, L.I. and Provincetown, Mass...
...Mallets (Lionel Hampton and guest stars; Victor LP). Twelve tunes, some loud and some sentimental. They are riffed to the accompaniment of deep, throbbing rhythm by a galaxy of greats, many paroled from the Ellington band...
...Interior chemist, she was born in Washington, where she attended segregated elementary schools, later went to a nonsegregated high school in Albuquerque, studied psychology at Grinnell College in Iowa. The turning point of her college career: a one-term stay as an exchange student at Virginia's Negro Hampton Institute...
More recent jazz styles appear on Norman Granz's Clef label, the best of them in Count Basie Big Band, one of the two or three full-size bands that still remember how to play with true jazz feeling, and the Lionel Hampton Quartet, in four long selections (including a razzle-dazzle chase chorus between Hampton's vibraharp and Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio...