Word: jiving
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...Manhattan the word went out among the live-wire jive set: hear Brubeck. At 31, Dave Brubeck of lone, Calif, is best known on the West Coast, but his piano playing has begun to get around. To his admirers, it is not only a brand-new style, it is the handsomest stuff since the birth of bop. In one of Manhattan's basement jazz dens last week, Brubeck and his quartet gave the East an earful...
Brubeck harmonies become more & more complicated, build up to a pulsing climax, then, rather unbelievably, push on past it. At the final peak Brubeck is often playing in two keys at once before he finally wrings his idea dry and the music subsides. When it is over, the jive fans look at each other in something like a daze before they burst into applause...
...Jive at Five (Count Basie: Mercury). One of the top Negro jazzmen of the late '30s, the Count tries a comeback. But the fine original side men are no longer with him, and his latest jive does more thumping than jumping...
...Tribute to Jazz, Ltd. (Jazz, Ltd. LP). A Chicago jive joint honors itself. Trombonist Miff Mole, Trumpeter Doc Evans & Co. provide the music: Tin Roof Blues, High Society, Jazz Me Blues, Charleston, done at length (eight minutes each) in easygoing Dixieland style...
First, balloon-shaped Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson faced each other across grand pianos. Then came Erroll Garner, and finally big Art Tatum, his almost sightless eyes turned to the wall. If Birdland, Manhattan's midtown mecca of jive, wanted to put on a representative "parade" of jazz pianists last week, it could hardly have found four ivory ticklers with more varying styles...