Word: jazzmen
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...Jazzmen such as Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and, lately, Sonny Rollins, whose ensemble playing ignores harmonics in pursuit of "free" melody lines...
...kind of prayer. Mary Lou broke her silence six years ago, but she found little pleasure in performing. Last week, still a bit reluctant, still mightily prayerful, Mary Lou was at the piano inside the oval bar at Manhattan's Hickory House. The town's best jazzmen were sprinkled through her audience, and there was nothing for her to do but play...
Away from the piano, her life is even richer. She is founder and proprietor of a foundation for the rehabilitation of down-and-out jazzmen, and she runs a Manhattan thrift shop for the foundation's benefit. Musicians who are doing well drop by with contributions nearly every day, and turning the merchandise into cash can sometimes tax even the devotion of Mary Lou. Only recently, Louis Armstrong's wife donated 100 pairs of size 41 shoes; the Duke donated a hand-painted pool stick and a mink...
...says earnestly, "and what could be of real help everywhere is a Jazz Corps!" The jazz audience, in large part, agrees, insisting that its musicians have been "the real ambassadors" all along. Jazz thinkers, quick to catch the drift of such talk, are constantly dreaming and demanding that jazzmen start getting some fast federal...
This is disastrous talk. The kind of committee approval and lukewarm acceptability required by federal grants would surely be fatal to jazz; it would force jazzmen to go to work for squares. Gone would be the blue lights and the old naughtiness. George F. Babbitt would be right there, tapping his foot...