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Also Norman Connors comes to town Sunday, April 24 and the Charles Mingus quintet stops in on Saturday, April 30 at Morse Auditorium. More details on those later...
...Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
...York scene, in fact, dramatically illustrates the tempo and tenor of today's music. All the old greats?and all tomorrow's stars?are filling the nights with once and future jazz. A season's billboard reads like an arpeggio of jazz excitement: Teddy Wilson, Benny Carter, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Thelonius Monk, Milt Hinton, Cootie Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Earl Hines, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie. They are playing blues, bop, jazz rock, honky tonk and ethereal moondust. The newest jazz center is in SoHo lofts, where young audiences gather to hear warm, contrapuntal, richly melodic explorations...
...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...