Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jazz, played the banjo and the violin in a jazz band he formed in high school, and wrote, with Frank Loesser, such pop songs as In Love with the Memory of You. Baseball was his enduring passion: "Had I been a better catcher, I might never have been a musician." His only opera, The Mighty Casey, is about Mudville's heroic slugger...
...yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest and skill. This improbable jazz musician was Father John Joseph Dustin. 45, a Redemptorist priest, who has been strumming the banjo for 36 years...
...advertising director will be Robert C. Gordon, who is now assistant publisher. Bob Gordon was born in Hingham, Mont. (pop. 254), 45 years ago, attended public schools in Minnesota and California, studied at the Sorbonne and the University of Munich. He is an amateur musician (piano and voice) and an even more amateur golfer...
...Tense as a Comic. Negro Pianist Jackson's greatest strength is an orderly, disciplined mind and a keen sense of form. While many a jazz musician thinks only a few bars ahead while improvising, Jackson envisions a whole piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always...
...simply "a little Mozart and water," and he periodically attacked "the absurdity of being the only music-patronizing nation in the world which systematically tolerates opera delivered in a foreign tongue." The composer he most conspicuously failed to appreciate was Brahms, whom he found "just like Tennyson, an extraordinary musician, with the brains of a third-rate village policeman...