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...concert dates. With two Carnegie Hall appearances at this week's Newport Jazz Festival in New York, Hancock kicks off a major headlining tour that will include concerts in such diverse locales as Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati and Tokyo. For his current record company, Columbia, he turned out an LP album, Head Hunters, which as of last week had sold 700,000 copies. That is more than many a hot rock act sells these days-more than any other album by a jazz performer has ever sold...
...retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory, but as if to compensate, made a clever LP (Spaces) three years ago with Davis Alumni McLaughlin, Corea and Cobham as his partners...
...fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...
...time (1781-1861), Anthony Philip Heinrich was considered by his supporters "the Beethoven of America." More recently, Lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky has taken a less adoring stance: "The quality of his works easily accounts for the speedy and complete oblivion of even his name." This first LP of his music suggests that the real Heinrich lies somewhere between Beethoven and oblivion. He was a Bohemian immigrant who, among other things, wrote some grandiose orchestral works and helped found the New York Philharmonic Society in 1842. The piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn...
...Tucker has been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October and two concert versions. While the opera may not be rich enough to justify the cost of a Met revival, this LP does whet the appetite for the whole thing on records, at least. Tucker at 60 continues to project vi brant, tensible tenor strength...