Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miles Davis finishes up his week-long engagement at Paul's Mall on Saturday. You've no doubt heard of Davis: he's the one who invented modern jazz and travels freely through time and space. Beware of a too-short and too-expensive show...
Miles Davis tops off the week. He's playing today through Saturday at Paul's Mall in Boston and is, as everybody must know, the single dominant figure in jazz. He started out as a Charlie Parker protege in the late 40s, playing bop trumpet, and after Bird died picked up a few proteges of his own--people like Max Roach, Herbie Hancock and John Coltrane were all in his band at one time. Miles went from hot to cool, and then in the late 60s back to hot again, and now his music is spacey and heavily rock-influenced...
Mongo Santamaria, next door at the Jazz Workshop all week, is a drum and bongo player from Cuba. He likes to go with a big, varied, high-energy band, using what's known in the trade as a heavy Afro-Cuban beat. He sounds like a sort of forefather to Santana, and definitely worth seeing...
...Great Old Time Jazz Festival is tonight on Long Field in Framingham, and features the Jeff Staughton High Society New Orleans Jazz Band at 7:30 p.m. Stuaghton's band sounds like a local imitation of real New Orleans bands like the Olympia, which are made up of old black men and women who grew up as Jazz did, in the teens and twenities, and are carrying the tradition. It's good to see people like Staughton, if they're faithful to the music and play well, carrying on the best music in the world...
Miles Davis moves into Paul's Mall on Sunday, and this is a chance to see God before you get to heaven. For all intents and purposes, Miles has been jazz itself for the last decade or so. Almost any one of the young jazz men who is doing good things today learned his stuff from Miles, and there's a lot to learn from Mr. D. Miles can get into some pretty wierd stuff every once in a while, but what's wrong with wierdness? He'll be in town until...