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...orchestra sawed through three Lewis compositions and one by J. J. Johnson, producing milky overstatements of nice little ideas. Solos by Saxophonist Phil Woods and Vibraharpist Milt Jackson nimbly demonstrated that what would have been fragile, intricate music for a quartet had been made fragmentary, timid music for an orchestra. In his scoring, Lewis seemed barely able to tell his strings from his brass: the violins and cellos were misused in pursuit of inconsequential filigree, while the basses took long and vapid solo runs. Lewis had gone perilously far in the quest to make jazz more respectable without making...
...Milt Jackson sextet, Flanagan's piano is the voice of reassurance...
Flanagan, at 32, has been earning his living as a musician for 17 years. He grew up in jazz in Detroit with Milt Jackson, Billy Mitchell, Kenny Burrell and the Jones brothers. And he still prefers playing with his old townsmen, who now form something like a private labor union inside modern jazz. Hank Jones remains his idea of a really good pianist, and for the trio he hopes to form eventually, he would like Hank's brother Elvin on drums and Detroit's Major Holley on bass...
Lazy Little Toss. "The kids are a little bored knocking each other around," said Wisconsin's Coach Milt Bruhn. "They know there's a job to be done, and they're anxious to get to it." At the kickoff, Wisconsin was a three-point favorite. But U.S.C. swiftly made the point spread seem ridiculous...
...such gung-ho spirit, the ferocious Lions on Thanksgiving Day went after Green Bay and, in full sight of a nationwide TV audience, showed that the Packers were vincible. Shooting holes in the nervous Packer defense, the Lions' Quarterback Milt Plum fired two quick touchdown passes to End Gail Cogdill for a 14-0 lead early in the second quarter. And when the Packers got the ball, the Lions' crushing defense made it even more embarrassing. The first time Packer Quarterback Bart Starr faded back to pass, he was dumped for a 15-yd. loss. Again and again...