Word: humors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alternately fresh, brash and mellow statements by a trumpeter whose playing is full of oddball humor, off-center insinuations, and piquant flurries. Such numbers as Blue Waltz and La Rive Gauche give him a fine chance to stretch his ideas...
Swingin' with Humes (Helen Humes; Contemporary). A singer with an infinitely stretchable, rubber-lined beat and a feel for a smoothly sculptured phrase bounces in high good humor through some dark laments: When Day Is Done, Baby Won't You Please Come Home, Solitude...
...short, before that tub is halfway to the Hub. the spectator understands that what he is giggling at is a shaggy story-nothing so apocalyptically sneaky, of course, as John Huston's deathless Beat the Devil, but a piece of fine hairy humor all the same. Deftly adapted by Ruth Brooks Flippen and Bruce Geller from a novel by Nat Benchley, Ship is tautly run by Director Irving Brecher, and it carries a competent crew of supporting players: Robert Wagner, Dolores Hart, Frankie Avalon, Frank Gorshin. Naturally, the captain is always in charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky...
...invisible Rulers who enforce them. But Kesey's lunatics and his story are full of gaiety too-including a wild ward party complete with wine, women and song. As the Chief says admiringly of Randle P. McMurphy: "He won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain...
...evening was indeed a catch-all. In David Behrman's Whistling Six, six unusual flutes and whistles cooed and chortled flirtatiously, and two even used bubbles to make sounds. Such a diversion is certainly a delight, but we laughed at it less for its real humor than for its juxtaposition with the serious pieces on the program. Here was a piece that was supposed to be funny...