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Djangology (Django Reinhardt; RCA Victor). The late great gypsy guitarist in previously unreleased recordings made in Rome in 1949-50. Three of Reinhardt's four companions are Italian jazzmen-not members of the Quintet of The Hot Club of France, as the album cover claims-and they go about as far in international understanding as a rhythm section can go. As for Reinhardt. in such numbers as Bricktop, Beyond the Sea and his own Djangology, he is by turns piquant and fiery, still a master at gracefully dandling a tune...
...Trumpeter Bob Wallis. 27, gave up a career as a marine engineer to lead his Storyville Jazzmen into the trad boom, dressed in Stetsons and cutaway jackets and looking like the fallout from a Buttermilk Sky. Most trad jazz goes back only 35 years or so. but the Storyville septet has a bestselling version of Mozart's Alia Turca...
...played as a kind of jazz pastorale-Calvin Jackson is the man to do it. More than just a highly accomplished pianist, he has the ability to ring intricate changes on familiar themes, evoke images of startling clarity, be congenial with both jazz and classics. Although much admired by jazzmen, he has remained largely unknown to the public. But last week Pianist-Arranger Jackson was finally coming into his own. His album of Jazz Variations on Movie Themes was a surprise hit with disk jockeys. He was busy scoring a new movie, planning new album material, and preparing the Gershwin...
...jazzbo buddies Pee Wee Russell and Buck Clayton were playing. Clayton dragged him onstage, and Gleason, whose French is limited to "encore doo van," got howls with a Gallic doubletalk routine. Later, he joked with French Clown Jacques Tati and wandered off to find late-evening brandy with his jazzmen and some 50 new fans...
...every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale, Mitchell studied at the Philadelphia Music Academy), the two decided...