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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...
...Pray For It," the first of the three dances that make up Winter, exemplifies this fusion in its purest form. Allesandro Vitelli's lighting is as vital to the sequence as Lindsay Crouse's chorcography, or the Charlie Mingus jazz piece she and Wakeen Ray-Riv dance to. As the space their bodies move in changes from blue to orange to hot pink, they become silhouettes of motion in a pulsating frame of sound and color; when the frame constricts to two thin streams of light, they move in a separate frenzy against the darkness. The integration is so smooth...
...over the music phrases. What about it. Why Christianity It's nothing to it. I don't want to talk about Christianity. I'm sitting in my room with my red light on. There's heavy smokum in the air. A smell you only get on Saturday. Music by Mingus, Roach, Blakey, Morgan, Shorten, there notes dancing on the clouds of smokum that's riding through...