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When the legendary John Coltrane Quartet went through its final convulsions in 1966, music lovers the world over bemoaned the end of perhaps the greatest jazz rhythm section ever. Once drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner left Coltrane's group to pursue solo careers, a nearly telepathic musical link was severed. But while the breakup of The Quartet may have been a lamentable occurrence for listeners, for both Jones and Tyner it offered the chance to distance themselves from saxophonist Coltrane's towering shadow and to enhance their own reputations as leaders...
...here so much to enjoy the honors of the Pudding Pot as to exorcise the ghost of Sherman McCoy [the character Hanks portrayed in "Bonfire of the Vanities"] who attended Yale. In fact, I'm trying to visit all the Ivy League schools to pay homage somehow to them...Is Cornell an Ivy League school?" Hanks quipped...
Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 876-7777. The McCoy Tyner/Bobby Hutcherson Quartet on Thursday, Feb. 16 through Saturday, February 18. The Friends on Dr. Burney with Jayne West and David Ripley on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 3 and 7 p.m. The Jacky Terrasson Trio on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Wednesday...
March 1967: McCoy says, "Dammit, Jim, I'm not a bricklayer, I'm a doctor!" First variation of this phrase...
Sept. 1966: NBC broadcasts first episode, The Man Trap: Kirk outwits a vampire-like alien who has eyes for McCoy...