Word: jazzman
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...home country it has become almost a religion. "Philosophically," says Brazilian Jazzman Ronaldo Boscoli, "bossa nova is a frame of mind in the same way that Chaplin, Picasso, Prokofiev, Debussy and even Beethoven represented a new frame of mind. They were bossa nova in their time" Such U.S. jazzmen as Flutist Herbie Mann heard the new music, liked it and began putting it in their programs back home. ("Twist music," said Mann, ";is all show and promise -no inner fire. Bossa nova is just the opposite.") Another early convert was Jazz Guitarist Charlie Byrd, who heard bossa nova while...
...only 19; he had been playing the sax since he was nine, had been making good money working proms and club dates from his mid-teens. ("I never played for $5 a night in my life," says Hawkins with pride. "I was always a rich musician.") As the first jazzman of any real talent to play the tenor sax, Hawkins quickly built a reputation and an ardent following. He added to both in 1939 when he and his own nine-piece band cut Body And Soul, one of the most famous jazz disks ever recorded. Hawkins stayed as active...
...campaign to attract the collegians for the 1962 holidays. Daytona City Commissioner Stanley Nass got civic groups to agree to "welcome the youngsters, leave them alone and let them entertain themselves with the facilities we have." The city appropriated an extra $12,000 for its recreation fund. Nass hired Jazzman Dave Brubeck for a show, got together a music-making group called the Folksters, gave them a truck and made them a "flying squad." Last week, whenever Nass got a report that the boys and girls were getting out of hand, he put the Folksters onto the truck...
Flesh-Royal: Any labukh, or musician, particularly a lobat (jazzman). One's own tachka (literally, wheelbarrow), or car. All firmennye (gone guys) and any klevaya chuvikha (classy chick). Anyone with a kusok (one G in rubles) or enough bashli (dough) for a zhelezny (terrific) night on the town and a motor (taxi) back to the khata...
...strongly recommend The World of Alcina (Atlantic 1241) and School of Rebellion (Roulette 52063) if you are willing to listen carefully and then re-listen. The same might be said of George Russell, who has worked out his own enlargement of tonality to fit the needs of the improvising jazzman. Jazz in the Space Age (Decca 9219) contains his most immediately appealing work, full of superb improvising by Bill Evans and others...