Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ORNETTE COLEMAN'S At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Vol. 1 (Blue Note) is his first recording in three years, and shows the happy effects of his welcome in Sweden as a cultural force-the Willem de Kooning of jazz. Coleman has been such a successful musical iconoclast that his music no longer sounds far "outside," although his alto sax still skips and dips in a blithe, wild way. Here, it occasionally turns into a little tune and then suddenly wrenches free again. His string bass player, David Izenzon, provides a wonderfully eerie foggy bottom in Dawn...
...MORGAN, a junior Dizzy Gillespie, last year unexpectedly found his jazz LP, The Sidewinder, winding its way inexorably up the country's bestseller charts. Now along comes The Rumproller (Blue Note), which is overflowing with Morgan's fluent and expressive trumpeting and some good tenor-sax playing by Joe Henderson. The title piece is a bit ponderous, with more rump than roll, but Morgan's composition Eclipso is a humorous bit of hopscotch through calypsoland, and The Lady is a dreamlike, moving ballad for Billie Holiday...
HORACE SILVER has led a successful quintet for ten years now, featuring his own melodic but hard-driving piano and compositions both bright and Silvery blue. The title piece of his Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note) is a spunky bit of funk with a samba beat. In Nutville, Bonita and Mo' Jo, Veteran Trombonist J. J. Johnson adds a third horn to the trumpet and sax of the mellow, swinging combo...
...girls, Five Dollar Billie, is a mannequin with a virtuous face but a ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing out of her breast) lying on a sewing-machine table. Like a pathetic machine, she Yo-Yos pelvically if a spectator peddles the foot treadle. Adding a sardonic note is a call-to-arms portrait of General MacArthur and a sergeant's jacket, bedecked with a good-conduct medal...
...eleven-year-old girl named Grace Bedell had written, saucily suggesting that "if you will let your whiskers grow, you would look a great deal better, for your face is so thin." Bemused by the note, Republican Presidential Candidate Abraham Lincoln wrote back to Grace in October 1860: "As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?" Affection or not, Lincoln grew the beard and won the election. His note to Grace survived through three generations in her family, until...