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California-born Bill Smith, on the other hand, prefers chamber works to vocal compositions, has written some highly praised pieces (Divertimento for Norvo, Concerto for Clarinet and Combo) for chamber jazz groups. Juilliard trained and, like Eaton, a Roger Sessions pupil, Smith, 34, was a fellow student with Dave Brubeck at Mills College and a charter member of the original Brubeck Octet. He is still under contract to Brubeck, is on leave from his teaching post (composition) at U.S.C...
...22nd-story roof garden above Benny's Manhattan House apartment for the fulfillment of a jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with a new Selmer sax. The King will...
...Morton (Fall River Legend) Gould at an ASCAP dinner in the visitors' honor. At week's end, Shostakovich and his countrymen rolled into Manhattan's cavernous Basin Street East to catch some summit-level jazz presided over by Old Maestros Benny Goodman on clarinet and Red Norvo on vibraharp. But if the Russians really dug the decadent, blood-tingling music, they showed it only with polite applause, an occasional twitch, no joyous faces...
...husked It's Gotta Be This or That, was spelled by such other oldtimers as Trumpeter Harry James in King Porter Stomp, Singers Ella Fitzgerald, Jo Stafford and Ray Eberle. But it was not until Benny meshed with his old quintet (including Teddy Wilson on piano and Red Norvo thrumming the vibraphone) that Maestro Goodman seemed to hit his old stride in syncopation so well arranged that it sounded like real jazz improvisation. His big band was helped little by a welter of panoramic views of its members, a well-intended effort by NBC to avoid a favorite...
...Norvo with Strings (Fantasy). The first man to make the xylophone talk jazz (in the early '30s). Oldtimer Norvo has lost neither his light touch nor the warm sentiments of his younger days. Playing the vibes, he joins with guitar and bass for some stimulating reflections on such tunes as Cabin in the Sky, That Old Black Magic...