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...musical descendants. Now Miles Davis is no longer welcome, and neither is Thelonious Monk or John Coltrane; their music, Goodstein thinks, has become too involuted and personal to please Birdland's current customers. The new regime is lively and loud, but it seems as anomalous as presenting harmonica players at the Philharmonic; the old hipsters come to the door, look on in sad disbelief, then wander away. For jazz, the pain of such events is becoming more than merely artistic. "There's a parking lot there now" describes much of the old jazz scene in New York, Chicago...
Dylan, one of the most successful folk artists in America, will sing many of his own songs and accompany himself on the guitar and harmonica. An informal dance with the Dielectrics at the Union will follow the concert...
...rewardingly, washboard. He was the National Washboard Co.'s "Soap Saver." Muldaur has modified his washboard by tacking it up against another washboard and stuffing old socks between the two grates to "give it a fatter sound." Mouth-Harpist Mel Lyman, 25, distinguishes between his instrument and the harmonica by saying, "People who play the harmonica are hung...
When he approached the Hasty Pudding, a pretxel of a man jumped out from the passageway and began playing a harmonica. But the man shivered so much that Fester could not tell he was playing "Joy to the World"; it sounded like "Home on the Range." Fester pulled his scarf up around his ears...
...INSTRUMENTALISTS. Of the 1,213 instrumental soloists Schwann lists, most are pianists (452), but curiosity seekers may dig out the name of Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being...