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Like Tweet (Columbia). The idea is cute and corny: eleven songs with themes that take off from the tunes of far-out birds like the purple finch and the wood pewee. "I suddenly realized,'' writes Jazzman Eddie Hall, "that birds blow the greatest riffs ever created." The band has an airy bounce, and the wonder of it all is that a few birds, notably the Baltimore oriole, come out of it almost as well as they went...
Hentoff called most jazz critics "amateurish" and "incompetent." "It's an easy cop-out for a jazzman to say a critic doesn't know what's he doing, because he's right...
...increased formal training the young men have, Hentoff observed that "it is no longer possible to play by ear." He did not feel that a jazzman studying music would necessarily ruin him for jazz...
...most interesting aspects of the jazzman's self-consciousness, Hentoff stated, was that apparently "the bulk of jazz repertoire is not going to be variations and improvisations of Jerome Kern or George Gershwin, but rather an indigenous set of jazz compositions...
...minutes after dinner, Bhumibol and Benny led a foot-stomping, starch-melting jam session. Next day the King toted a sax up to the 22nd-story roof garden above Benny's Manhattan House apartment for the fulfillment of a jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung...