Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard Cabaret presents the Harvard Jazz Band, 9-midnight in the infamous DUNSTER HOUSE DINING HALL. $.75, with "food, drink, talk...
Mahavishnu Orchestra, with Loggins and Messima. This is the weirdest double bill since Soft Machine and Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys backed Jimi Hendrix in '69. The Orchestra plays swirling, spiritual jazz-rock, from John McLaughlin's mystical base. Loggins-Messina are Buffalo Springfield drawn through Poco. This lot played at the Common this summer. And cut everybody except Smokey. October 27th at the AQUARIUS. 7 and 10 p.m. Tickets...
...either role. Since childhood he has been a committed fan and sometime practitioner of the performing arts. "When I was a moviegoing youth," he recalls, "I think I would have been willing to die for Ingrid Bergman." At Yale, Porterfield composed, arranged and conducted the music for his own jazz groups. His fickle affections, meanwhile, shifted from Bergman to the Broadway stars who appeared in New Haven tryouts. He and his roommate, Dick Cavett, frequently got backstage at the Shubert Theater to stargaze at close range. "In those days," says Porterfield, "I regarded performers with a mixture of fascination...
...continuing disdain in which 20th century composers hold the sax is also due in part to its ascendancy in the 1920s as a leading voice of dance and jazz bands. (Critic Leonard Feather once wrote that the coat of arms for F. Scott Fitzgerald could have been two alto saxophones rampant on a field of cocktail shakers.) Even so, the sax had to overcome the prejudice of old-line jazz purists. Trumpeter Bunk Johnson once complained that it did not fit into the traditional New Orleans ensemble of trumpet, trombone and clarinet. "It just runs up and downstairs with...
...style leaps during the premiere of Fellow Countryman Guy Lacour's Hommage à Jacques Ibert, thereby precipitating excited talk of a possible fusion between the French school of playing (bright, full tone, strict adherence to the instrument's normal 2½-octave range) and the American (more jazz-influenced, less inhibited in tone and pitch...