Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children of atonality and jazz. Renaissance music may seem uniformly placid and therefore boring. Dissonance creates the tension that propels music, but sounds that once demanded resolution seem common and consonant...
George Benson: Bad Benson (CTI; $5.98). George Benson is in every way a superior guitarist to Beatle George Harrison, for example, or to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. Benson's uncluttered swinging blues set guitar-playing standards that quickly made his name known to every serious jazz buff. But after 20 years in an industry whose inflated lexicon calls every rock performer a star, Benson is still little recognized by the public. His style is romantic but ascetic - free of unnecessary electric trickery. Although he favors the slow tempi of Paul Desmond's Take Five...
Billy Cobham: Total Eclipse (Atlantic; $6.98). An alumnus of Miles Davis and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham evolved from a progressive rhythm-and-blues drummer to a deft jazz writer-arranger. His music, often danceable, reflects Caribbean and Latin American rhythmic and tonal influences. Solarization, a 10½-minute elaboration of a five-note motif, is sometimes ruminative, but at other times radiates sizzling sensuality...
Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Potpourri (Philadelphia International Records; $6.98). Eighteen jazz all-stars make up one of the last of the big bands. Many jazz connoisseurs also consider it the best. In nine years of one-night stands since its founding by Trumpeter Jones and Drummer Lewis, J. & L. has perfected a loose, flexible sound. The title refers to the multiracial, three-generation profile of the personnel - Trombonist Cliff Heather is 70, Trumpeter Jon Faddis is 21 - as well as to the program...
...York, the Rockefeller Foundation is not ordering up any new music, but it has launched something as commendable: a four-year, $4 million project to issue a 100-LP collection of American music from early times to the present. The archives of jazz, folk, pop and the classics will constitute about one-half of the set. When no recordings can be found for works of such composers as John Paine (1839-1906), Arthur Farwell (1872-1952), or possibly some of today's composers, new ones will be made. Says Howard Klein, director of the foundation's arts program...