Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Mingus has been a pioneer in jazz improvisation for about the last 20 years. As a bass player, Mingus has headed up numerous combinations, every one of them exploring free form in jazz. His performances this week, nightly at the jazz Workshop, will serve as a good indication of what everybody else will be playing five years from now. 733 Boylston St. nightly until Sunday...
...well as for Americans. Its roots extend back to Cuban dance music of previous decades like the rumba. After 1961, when the U.S. suspended relations with Cuba, emigrant Latin musicians and mainland-born Puerto Ricans gradually fused their own style with elements of American rock, soul and especially jazz. The result was salsa's singing dances. They are a combination of pungent vocal melodies challenged by complex instrumental counterrhythms...
...Boston visitation, this time drawing crowds until Saturday night at Paul's Mail. Miles has spawned more than 50 records and a number of great musicians, including Coltrane, Shorter and Hancock, so it might be worth going simply to see who will make it big this year on the jazz circuit...
...same old ballads that he recorded about ten years ago. His latest album, Strike Up The Band, with Bobby Hackett, features some pleasant renditions of a couple of Gershwin warhorses, including "Embraceable You." Nothing really innovative there, however. But Sims is paired with Al Cohn over at Sandy's Jazz Revival and there is a good chance that he'll snap out of it, and play some of his own stuff. While you are there try to tell the difference between Sims and the great Lester Young. Through Saturday...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, a movie based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel and co-produced by The Streets of San Francisco Star Michael Douglas. The film stars Nicholson as an asylum inmate ("crazy as a fox") and features former Oregon Governor Tom McCall, Jazz Singer Seatman Crothers and some of the hospital's 600 inmates in its cast. Nicholson, who anticipated that his assignment would be "a fairly depressing and intense experience," found that both actors and inmates gained from their contact. "What saved the day for me was to see how much good...