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...King George V during a command performance in 1932. Satchmo has since learned a little more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...injecting itself into the jazz idiom (at the same time, of course, absorbing elements of jazz into its own idiom). Recent recordings by Ramsey Lewis, Cannonball Adderley and Gabor Szabo demonstrate how successfully-and sometimes how superficially-jazz can be superimposed on a rock foundation. More significantly, several jazzmen young enough to be in the rock generation are emerging to show what can be done when the two strains are thoroughly fused. Two of the most original: - Jeremy Steig, 24, a wildly lyrical flutist and the leader of an electrified jazz-rock group called the Satyrs, which occasionally accompanies...
...Sonny Rollins, best-known from his hard-bop days for a coarse tone and wild, harsh harmonies, has turned urbane and eloquent as composer of his first film score. This record is a series of new arrangements on the original sound track by Oliver Nelson, played by eleven good jazzmen, including Sonny. Alfie's Theme is a little long and ultimately empty, but then, that's Alfie...
TEQUILA (Verve) is the title song but not the flavor of the album. Though Wes Montgomery, the fine self-taught guitarist, can hold his own with the driving, jabbing jazzmen of today, for the moment he turns relaxed and romantic. In such songs as Little Child (Daddy Dear) and Midnight Mood his big warm tone holds a strong melodic line that is echoed by a dozen violins and cellos, almost like a Roger Williams showpiece...
...music side, the new troubadours are experimenting with all manner of sounds and complex musical modes. Says Jazz Bassist Steve Swallow: "There is a scarcity of young jazzmen because the most talented young people are playing rock 'n' roll. They have saved songwriting from the tyranny of Irving Berlin...