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...object of this controversy is a slight, fringe-bearded alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman. No jazzman has created such a stir since Charlie Parker started packing them in at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street 15 years ago. Last week, insiders of the cool world were flocking to a shabby cave in Manhattan...
Something Else. Like many a modern jazzman, Coleman is trying to enlarge the content of jazz by allowing for a greater degree of improvisation. Bop musicians, most notably Parker, attempted the same thing in the 1940s by ignoring traditional rests and introducing low-volume rhythmic subtleties that freed soloists from the slogging swing beat. In the late '40s came the cool style pioneered by Miles Davis, with its lagging beat and light, dry sound...
Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Riverside), sold 50,000 copies-phenomenal for a jazz record-and climbed to the bestseller charts along with such towering competitors as Fireside Sing Along with Mitch. Last week Cannonball and his men were shouting it up at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop. "The rhythm," complained a beard to a ponytail, "doesn't hang together...
...vast majority taper off as they get older. Winick found that, of his subjects over 40, only two were still hooked on heroin. Explained one 43-year-old jazzman who had kicked the habit: "I guess I just diminuendoed...
...Western music from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...