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July 29, Illinois Jacquet and His Big Band, and Michel Camilo Trio Clubs...
...visit was just one of several recent signs that jazz is thriving at Harvard. Last May, the Jazz Band's 15th Anniversary Concert was an inspired and polished success, with jazz greats like Illinois Jacquet and Lester Bowie leading the Band in front of a sell-out crowd. It's refreshing to see that the Jazz Band has not lost its momentum, its swing or its quest for improvement...
More newsworthy than the lead in, "Blues Alley came to Cambridge last night," are the following facts. Sanders Theater vibrated with an energetic, standing-room-only crowd. Guest artist Illinois Jacquet ignited a spark in the audience as he displayed his love and enthusiasm for jazz and the Harvard Jazz Band. Trumpeter Lester Bowie, sporting a white silk dressing gown and purple pants, thrilled the crowd with his "avant pop" antics. The Jazz Band, playing with all the guests, gave a remarkable performance, not to mention a few outstanding solos. I fail to comprehend why The Crimson neglected to include...
Little Herbie Solomon was, every body said, a square. While the other saxophone players at Brooklyn's Abra ham Lincoln High School were trying to imitate the new bebop style of Charlie ("Bird") Parker. Herbie was still practicing to old Illinois Jacquet and Flip Phillips records. You're not with it, Herbie, they said, and refused to let him play with the school's dance band...
...ALAIN JACQUET-Iolas, 15 East 55th. Paris' Pop prodigy had a painting, done when he was 22, in the Guggenheim's recent worldwide survey, and thus was its youngest artist. Here he spans centuries and continents, melding old and new with art about art: he copies the classics (Praxiteles, Botticelli, Michelangelo), jazzes them up in modern trappings, calls them camouflages. Through April...