Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Besides daily doses of classical guitar, folk, jazz and chamber music, owner Milt James has put together a better than typical cafe menu; some hefty slices of banana and pecan bread are the most memorable dishes...
...Burton Quintet. Keith Jarret and Gary Burton are separate trips in themselves. If the old adage "Two heads are better than one" holds water nowadays, the Keith Jarret/Gary Burton quintet could take you on the trip of your life this Thursday night. Burton, in addition to being one of Jazz's most accomplished vibraphonists, moonlights as an instructor at Berklee. Keith Jarret on the other hand, is a pianist who has rejected electronics completely and plays nothing but normal piano. But this has not cramped his style at all. In fact, his extension of new music past the limits...
Plus two sticks for a refined imitation of a jazz combo...
...other films in The Boston Center for the Arts series of which Bland's film is a part include Dizzie Gillespie, a 1959 Les Blank production, and John Jeremy's Jazz Is Our Religion. Jeremy's 1970 film supports Bland's thesis that even when a black musician plays from his roots he blows his soul "through a white man's machine." But the work is most notable for some fine stills of the conditions and communities that breed jazz as well as a scattering of poetic jazz talk by Langston Hughes...
Unlike Bland's film, Jazz Is Our Religion offers both hope and enthusiasm for the future jazz scene. And more realistically, rather than limiting the jazz rites to blacks, Jeremy invites us all to "go worship in the church of jazz--the nightclub...