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...late Jazzman Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker one evening offered to "do a gig" on his alto sax to square a bar debt. The Bird died before he could make good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen...
Several of America's top jazzmen will form a jazz combo Friday night to play for an informal dance in the Union. Milt Hinton, Buck Clayton, Urbie Green, Jo Jones, Coleman Hawkins, and Osie Johnson will take part...
Saturday is jazz day on WHRB. From 3 to 8 p.m. ACCENT ON JAZZ brings you a variety of sounds and jazzmen carefully selected for casual Saturday listening...
That was 40 years ago (the anniversary was solemnly celebrated last week in a special broadcast by Britain's BBC), and since then the worldly fortunes of jazzmen have become firmly glued to records. Now, with the flood of jazz disks higher than ever, record companies are taking a nostalgic second look at some of their earlier artists. Among the more impressive results: the Jazztone Society's ten-disk collection, Styles of Jazz, including that original recording of Livery Stable Blues, a fast and vastly exuberant piece in a weak-and-strong two-beat, with barnyard sounds reproduced...
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...