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Meaningful Traces. Handy refined his style playing classically oriented jazz with small symphony orchestras on the West Coast, studied modern classical composers such as Prokofiev and Stravinsky. He has become so skilled in instrumental techniques and music theory that many jazzmen go to him for instruction. "Handy," says Mingus, "is a musician with a brain...
...salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help otherwise, except as evidence that when Sammy plays a good gig, his pals can be sure of work. Even Frank Sinatra Jr. sits in, tussling with a sappy role as Davis' sidekick, and Peter...
...told; the lines of fans snaking around the block last week were testimony enough. Pianist Ramsey Lewis, 30, is not only In, he is the hottest jazz artist going. And amazingly enough, he is going strongest in the rock-'n'-roll market where jazzmen have customarily gone over like the tenor in a burlesque house. The younger generation, it seems, having grown up at a time when the Young Turks of jazz are grimly exploring the wild beyond, has adopted Lewis as the purveyor of a new and wondrous sound...
Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...
...browser on Wells can find everything from sandals to a potty screen for discreet cats ($8). Top jazzmen pull their gigs at The Plugged Nickel and, a few doors down, the hippest folksters fill up cavernous Mother Blues. At the end of the street is the famed Second City, the satiric improvisational theater. And in the next three months, some 32 new places are firmly scheduled to add themselves to the present 110 establishments...