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Fortnight ago Dr. Hall returned from his two-week tour in Leningrad and Moscow as a guest of the Soviet Min istry of Health. He was disappointed...
...Russia-compared with 35 to 50 in the U.S. At Moscow's Neurosurgical Institute, the entire staff turned out to hear Dr. Hall lecture on the air-powered drills and bone saws he has developed. "Who was looking after the patients I don't know," he says. Leningrad's Neurosurgical Institute was closed during his visit because the doctors were on vacation. "An emergency case," he reported, "would simply be treated by less qualified personnel...
...Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fatha") Mines crooning as he and his cool, cool sextet finished up a six-week gig around Russia. After inviting them, the Soviet government did everything it could think of to mash the smash-even going so far as to cancel scheduled performances in Moscow and Leningrad. Hines and his boys found plenty of cats in the boondocks, playing to S.R.O. crowds. "Jazz is happiness," grinned Fatha. "I know the Russians don't have much to smile about, but after they heard us they were smiling...
...Americans up at a scheduled Soviet-American track meet in Los Angeles; when U.S. swimmers came to Moscow, Pravda reported the meet without mentioning them. Last month American Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fa-tha") Hines's sextet, on an official tour of Russia, found its bookings in Moscow and Leningrad suddenly canceled, was detoured by its government hosts to a string of Off-Broadway stands in the Black Sea area...
Tough luck for Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata. What swingers there will miss-and those in the provinces will hear-is a propulsive, inventive brand of piano that has been the wonder of the jazz world for nearly 40 years. In Russia, as everywhere, Hines has been playing with a gusto born of assurance. His left hand minds the shop while his right frolics on a freewheeling holiday. Eyes squinched in concentration, his yard-wide smile flashing like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked...