Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would practically be inviting an outraged Congress to take away the Federal Reserve's cherished independence. One newspaper cartoon pictures Burns and Carter as a Washington version of Price and Pride, A. &P.'s smoothly complementary TV pitchmen: Burns presumably cautioning the proud Carter not to jazz up the economy so much as to make the inflationary price unacceptable. That may be overstating the prospects for harmony, but the two men at least realize that for the next year they will have to try hard to get along with each other...
Hancock is a complex pianist; a pioneer in electric piano who earned his reputation on the acoustical ivories. He is topnotch on both, but I have always preferred his soft Maiden Voyage stuff to his more recent-jazz synthesis. But I'm in the minority on this point...
...great Coltrane and went into semi-retirement. He's back on the scene now--some say as forceful as ever. He is not very innovative, but he has complete mastery over the saxophone as no other has. Gato Barbieri is still getting praises for his rock-jazz-orchestra synthesis Caliente, which has managed to find playing time on several local FM stations. Gato is up from South America, but he has been away for so long that one wonders whether his style hasn't taken on a totally American approach. But there is a gutsy resonance in his tenor that...
...broke in as an 18-year old wunderkind. But he is up in the top ten trumpeters playing today. Laws is a rarity; a lead man on flute: Not in the Eric Dolphy bracket, Laws is nevertheless more than competant on the flute. He is very much into the jazz-rock scene despite his usually classical instrument. Tyner is still my favorite pianist. He has not surrendered to the electric piano (in fact, he even tried his hand on the harpsichord in one album) and has maintained a high standard of romanticism in jazz. His style is best when...
...hold out for the Saturday night concert which looks like it may be the best of the whole bunch: Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass. This concert combines what must be considered the class of the old time jazz field. I caught this identical show last year at the Valley Forge Music Fair, outside Philly, and Ella was still incredible: still a great voice, still great scat-singing. She did the usuals: "Let's Do It," and a few Harold Arlen and George Gershwin numbers. Peterson was a little more on the cocktail, night club side...