Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bette Davis is hostess...
Jazz is a language, and a number of Broadway and Hollywood scores have recently been translated into it, or at least rephrased with a jazz accent. The results, while not always pleasing the jazz clique, have made a running start toward the pop charts, where André Previn's My Fair Lady and Louis Armstrong's Hello, Dolly! led the way. Some new pop-jazz releases...
DUKE ELLINGTON: MARY POPPINS (Reprise). The Duke leaves all the Hollywood sugar in these twelve pieces from the Disney movie and adds some corn (a growling trumpet, a wah-wah trombone). But there is deftness in most of his gentle transformations, and he seems to enjoy playing with the little pieces. The virtuosos of his big band step forward solemnly to play the songs of Mr. Banks, the children and the chimney sweep, and Saxophonist Paul Gonsalves scampers through Mary Poppins' exultant solo faster than one can say supercalifragilistic-expialidocious...
DIZZY GOES HOLLYWOOD (Philips) could more properly be called Hollywood Goes Dizzy, and what a way to go. Gillespie's trumpet throws flames octaves high while it sears eleven songs and movie themes, including those from Caesar and Cleopatra, Never on Sunday and Lawrence of Arabia. Walk on the Wild Side gets the most extended and exploratory treatment along the lines of its title...
...Bother to Knock is a glib, mildly titillating Hollywood-style sex farce. Unfortunately, the film was made by Britons, and the results are about as predictably askew as an American effort to make one of those barmy little British comedies about tweedy bird watchers and eccentric country curates...