Word: jazzmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jazzmen used to going "way out" on free-swinging improvisations, much of modern symphonic music has long seemed both sterile and inhibited. Composer Howard Brubeck, a college music teacher and brother of Pianist Dave Brubeck, wrote his Dialogues in an effort to un-inhibit things by wedding improvisation with formal music. Both the jazzmen and the symphonic musicians had some doubts about the project. "We can't memorize and play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when...
Howard Brubeck's answer: in future compositions he expects to give both the jazzmen and the orchestra far greater opportunity to improvise. Mozart. Bach and other 18th century composers, he points out, left a great deal to the performers' discretion, sometimes providing only basic themes and certain harmonies. It is high time, he feels, that U.S. composers started to follow their lead...
When the younger jazzmen did away with Dixieland and big-band swing and dove into the cool depths of bop and progressive jazz, they also left behind the sweet, lucid sound of the clarinet. Once known as an ill woodwind that nobody blows good, this relatively new instrument suddenly struck the U.S. mass ear in the 1920s in the hands of Ted Lewis, who made it wail, and reached peak popularity in the pre-World War II days of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, who made it swing. It is still a must in every Dixieland and New Orleans jazz...
...sends me more than Miff Mole"), Switzerland ("Thank you, Angel, for Oscar Petersen's Tenderly"), Poland ("more jamba, boogie"). No letters have been received from Russia, but Manager King heard the program while visiting Moscow and suspects that it is being taped for the benefit of Russian jazzmen who want to learn U.S. arrangements. In Hungary the Voice learned that there is a jazz band that tapes the jazz show every...
...left Accra without the triumphal procession that CBS had planned, but leaving a trail of good will anyhow. A band of young high-life musicians who followed him devotedly throughout the tour went back to their nightclubs feeling good-the master had told them they sounded just like the jazzmen in old-time New Orleans. "Man, it was just very," said one of them in his daze. Just very what? someone asked. "Just very great," he sighed...