Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM: A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Columbia). The year's most distinguished musical makes the year's best original-cast LP. i AM A SONG (RCA). England's empress of the jazz song, Cleo Laine, in a scintillating U.S. recording debut...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Capricorn). A masterly essay from the Allman Brothers in how to blend rock, jazz and white rural Southern blues...
...always been my dream to perform for my people," said Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, 56. Making his first visit to Black Africa to join Uhuru (freedom) celebrations in Kenya marking ten years of independence, South Carolina-born Dizzy and his trio played to capacity crowds in Nairobi. On Uhuru Day, Dizzy serenaded President Jomo Kenyatta, 82, with a special composition titled Burning Spear (Kenyatta's nickname in pre-independence days). The piece, said Dizzy, included "touches of Indian, South American and African music and quite a few bars of the good ol' American blues." As it turned...
Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers (Capricorn; $5.98). Topped off by Richard Belts' virtuoso lead guitar and Chuck Leavell's infectious piano, this is a rollicking fusion of rock, jazz and white rural Southern blues that adds up to one of the best pop albums of the year. It is also unusually tasteful...
GEORGE BENSON, THE PERSUASIONS--Call 267-1300 for information on Paul's Mall or Jazz Workshop...