Word: jazz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tiger's Baku--1369 Jazz Club...
Winds and Airs Jazz Festival--UMass/Boston, 12 noon - 12 midnight...
...coming week offers a smorgasbord of activities of interest to the Boston jazz fan; for once it is not only possible but necessary to exercise some selectivity. Boston Jazz Week (April 27-May 6) begins tomorrow, and its sponsor, the Jazz Coalition, has coordinated a rich and varied program of events to help fulfill this year's theme of "Celebrating the Duke" (they don't mean John Wayne). Boston Jazz Week lacks the financial and promotional resources of the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, but it also lacks the crass commercialism that characterized that event; the committment is to real jazz...
Several continuing events provide an excellent excuse to spend a sunny reading period afternoon wandering around Boston (exams are weeks away...) The lobby of the John Hancock Building and the mezzanine of Boston City Hall share an exhibit called Jazz...A Visual Experience which brings together the work of eleven local artists and photographers. Jazz artists lend themselves to this sort of treatment--the music is inseparable from the men who make it--and both exhibitions are free...
Evenings are likewise filled. Concerts, concerts--Jaki Byard, George Russell, various local artists--even a screening of rare films that chronicle the history of jazz dance. The climax of the week-long event is a performance by the Art Ensemble of Chicago at the Church of the Covenant (67 Newbury street) on Friday, May 4th at 8:30 p.m. "If you don't know the Art Ensemble, I can't possibly describe them," Louis Armstrong' said about "jazz", but then the Art Ensemble represents jazz in its most courageous and highly distilled form. Their playing reflects rigorous discipline...