Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elvin Jones, with almost no advance publicity, is sneaking into the Jazz Workshop this week. Jones is, quite simply, the best jazz drummer in the world. He's at his best in a small place; when he plays he screws an omnipresent cigarette into his mouth, contorts his face into an impossible squint to keep the smoke out of his eyes, nods his head to unseen rhythms and plays terriffic rapid-fire solos. A real virtuoso...
Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie, two of the all-time greats of jazz, are down at the Cape Cod Coliseum in South Yarmouth (a little over an hour's drive) tonight. Fitzgerald is particularly amazing; the venerable singer still has what may well be the best female voice in the world...
...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble are next door at the Jazz Workshop. Haynes is a superb jazz drummer who has played with all sorts of greats (John Coltrane, for example), but we must confess we have our doubts about how interesting it can be to listen to somebody play drums for two hours. If you think drums can work as a lead instrument, by all means go; if anyone can pull it off it's Haynes. Though Sunday...
...Haynes and the Hip Ensemble is (are?) at the Jazz Workshop this week. Haynes is a very good jazz drummer who has played for Coltrane and other greats, but who can listen to somebody play drums for two hours...
...Judging from my own noise and the band's volume output during the last concert I attended, I should be filed in the Heavy Metal category of rock fan [June 24]. But wait a minute-I have grown up with two professional musicians (classical and jazz) in my family, so I should also be a Listener, especially since my favorite group is the Moody Blues, right? But then my favorite solo artists are Cat Stevens and Joni Mitchell, and I love romantic ballads and such, so I'm a Squeaky Clean also. What an identity crisis...