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Negotiations are still on for other well-known jazzmen, such as Cozy Cole and Billy Mason, so there should be plenty of good solos. As for the ensembles, we shall see. Tickets are on sale today as seats are reserved...
...those who heard Davision this summer, his remarkable trumpet-playing needs no recommendation. At the time, however, he was overshadowed by Pee Wee Russell's name, though not by his playing. Now you can listen to five really great jazzmen whose names mean nothing to most people, and hear some swell music without regard to reputation...
...jazzmen can keep up with their own standards. Even the great Goodman, one of the most ardent perfectionists in the business, has turned out a pitifully large number of stinkers. It's easy to say, on the other hand, that all of Muggsy Spanier's records are good when they total only a dozen. It's also easy to say that even in Louis Armstrong's worst numbers, the mere presence of a few golden notes from his horn redeems them...
...seem paradoxical on the surface, but, actually, a taste for real jazz usually takes more time and effort to acquire than a feeling for Beethoven. The circumstances that begat the two different types have, in this discussion, nothing to do with the case. Most jazzmen would be amazed at the similarity between strict jazz and the thoroughbass music of Bach's time. In both cases you have the rigid rhythmic pattern over which an intricate web of thematic variations is woven. Bach's work had the advantage of being composed by a single highly developed talent, while jazz...
Thus Frankie started the present era of jazz in Boston, the greatest in Hub history. There've been regular engagements of some of the greatest living jazzmen, and first one, then two jam sessions simultaneously. Unbelievable in this day, because it happened in Boston, and all the more unbelievable because it happened when jazz is supposedly on its last legs...