Word: mingus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large clubs in Boston proper which feature jazz, but they don't make a habit of doing so weekly. The clubs, Paul's Mall and Jazz Workshop on 733 Boylston St. will sport the headliners. It won't be unusual to see McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, or even Charles Mingus playing at these jointly--owned establishments. But these bookings are about as innovative as the management gets...
...Charles Mingus has been a pioneer in jazz improvisation for about the last 20 years. As a bass player, Mingus has headed up numerous combinations, every one of them exploring free form in jazz. His performances this week, nightly at the jazz Workshop, will serve as a good indication of what everybody else will be playing five years from now. 733 Boylston St. nightly until Sunday...
Newport-New England. Friday: War, Ray Charles, Herbie Mann, the Staple Singers, and Billy Paul. Saturday: Donny Hathaway, B.B. King, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie Wonder. At Fenway Park, July 27 and 28. Tickets...
...flesh ensued. So now they hold the festival in places like the Sheep Meadow and Fenway Park. All that considered, this year's local festival shapes up well indeed. The key evening is Saturday, because Stevie Wonder and B.B. King more or less top a bill of giants: Mingus, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his Quintet, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and the Vibration Society, and mellow man Donny Hathaway. The problem of course is Fenway Park, cozy for baseball, but cavernous for jazz. I saw McCarthy there in '68 and the sound was rotten. This is 1973 though, and when...
...clear case of the same sort of show biz is another new work in the Jeffrey repertory, Alvin Ailey's The Mingus Dancers, based on a grouping of ponderously orchestrated pieces by fabled Jazz Bassist Charlie Mingus. The work is an odd mixture of five abstractly modern sections and four stagey "vaudeville" routines, some comic, some gloomily Brechtian in flavor. They include a morose parade of grinning soldiers in clownlike, whiteface makeup, a lady from Spain heel-clacking through a campy flamenco, a pair of policemen mock-dueling with nightsticks. The vaudevilles have no discernible relationship to the abstract...