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...superior court reversed the 21½-to-3-year conviction of Playwright LeRoi Jones for carrying guns during the 1967 Newark riot. Jones claimed that Newark police planted two guns in his car. Without deciding the dispute, the three appeals justices ruled that Essex County Judge Leon W. Kapp gave a "devastatingly improper and fatally unfair" charge to the jury. Kapp had also sentenced Jones to 30 days in prison for contempt after the playwright reacted to a ruling from the bench with what the judge termed "an epithet descriptive of excrement." The superior court, maintaining that Jones...
Finally, in 1954, President Dave Kapp of Kapp Records heard Williams play in the cocktail lounge of Manhattan's Madison Hotel. Kapp signed him to the contract that led to Autumn Leaves, his first hit record. That was the end of classics and jazz-and spaghetti. Williams' sole, simple ambition since then has been "to be the greatest pop pianist who ever lived." As the song says, to each...
Last week, with a New Jersey courtroom for a stage, Jones demonstrated that he had lost none of his talent for theatrical invective. "You are not a righteous judge!" the defendant bellowed at Essex County Judge Leon Kapp, who sentenced him to a near maximum 2½-to-3-year prison term and a fine of $1,000 for illegally possessing the guns. "You represent a crumbling structure of society!" yelled Jones, who had earlier earned a 30-day contempt sentence for his outbursts in court...
...Judge Kapp would have none of it. "I believe you were an active participant to burn Newark," he told the unrepentant author, and then cited a poem published in last December's Evergreen Review in which Jones exhorted Negroes to "smash the window at night (these are magic actions) .. . Just take what you want. Take their lives if need be, but get what you want." "You are sick," lectured the judge. "Not as sick as you," shot back Jones before leaving for Trenton state prison...
ROGER WILLIAMS: ROGER! (Kapp). There are times when Roger seems possessed of 20 trigger-happy fingers as he ripples through the Beatles' And I Love Her or the theme from The Sand Pebbles. His fluent, if florid, piano style embellishes a light-hearted Georgy Girl, ranges from stirring to tender on the theme from Black Orpheus, and rollicks through the Monkees' tune, I'm a Believer...