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Fats played piano like a jovially lavish host, and the evening is like a rollicking party-a "rent party," perhaps, that Harlem Depression phenomenon where guests put a small sum in the household kitty and jazzmen improvised from midnight to dawn. There are 27 numbers in all and they compose an ebullient cantata of urban night music. The audience could almost sing along with Honeysuckle Rose, Mean to Me, Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, and that powerful elegy to black sorrow, Black and Blue...
...master Stan Getz is bringing his tenor sax and his quartet to Sandy Berman's Jazz Revival in Beverly (54 Cabot St., 922-7515) through July 3. In addition to regular evening sets, the Getz quartet will play a special Sunday matinee from 4-7 p.m. Monday night traditional jazzmen Dave Whitney and Reggie Phillips take over...
Aside from the black-white jazz juxtaposition, Bland gives little support for his murder indictment of white jazzmen. He fails to deal with the then up-and-coming black musicians, particularly John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy, who when the movie was made were far from their deathbeds. And more importantly, he precludes any sort of white imitations arising, a viewpoint which the plangent sounds of John Klemmer's tenor sax go far to dispute...
...typical jazzmen's drinking contest of the Prohibition era. Through the night, Cornetist Rex Stewart and Trombonist Joe Nanton matched half pints of gin with each other-and a referee. By 9 a.m., the only one left standing was the referee, who happened to be Bandleader Duke Ellington. Recalling the incident last year in his autobiography Music is my Mistress, Ellington wrote, "I don't drink booze any more. I retired undefeated champ about 30 years...
Changes consists of "a variety of original improvisations" and three one-act plays, one of which is apparently a jam session by local jazzmen. The other two are The Jewish Wife, which I gather is one of Bertolt Brecht's less worthwhile plays, and Michael McClure's The Cherub, which is evidently about someone called The Bed and described only as a sixty-two-year-old actress who must be seen. I have little or no idea what this means. Thursdays (cheaper), Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. at Theater Two, 196 Broadway near Kendall Square...