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...Five Spot and the Half-Note in New York and the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco are now much like Birdland ten years ago -but the audience is steadily shrinking. Even in Manhattan, there are many nights when fewer than 200 people buy a drink to hear a serious jazzman play...
...town for talks with the President was Jordan's King Hussein, and the Johnsons gave a state dinner in his honor. After the dinner, the Johnsons and their 151 guests repaired to the East Room, where Jazzman Dave Brubeck played three selections for Jazz Fan Hussein. Then it was away to the white-walled Blue Room for dancing...
...exciting portrait of Master Jazzman Thelonious Monk [Feb. 28]. Mr. Monk deserves more than a narrow cult of followers. Although his musical explorations are personal and uncompromising, their emotional appeal is broad and basic. Anyone witnessing a performance by his group will realize that Monk's dramatic "stage presence" is vital to the dignity, humor and discipline of his music...
...serious recognition he deserved all along, and his name is spoken with the quiet reverence that jazz itself has come to demand. His music is discussed in composition courses at Juilliard, sophisticates find in it affinities with Webern, and French Critic Andre Hodeir hails him as the first jazzman to have "a feeling for specifically modern esthetic values." The complexity jazz has lately acquired has always been present in Monk's music, and there is hardly a jazz musician playing who is not in some way indebted to him. On his tours last year he bought a silk skullcap...
Died. Jack ("Big Gate") Teagarden, 58, jazzman somewhere close to "Chicago," between Dixieland and swing, one of the great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans...