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Jazz DIZZY GILLESPIE & THE DOUBLE SIX OF PARIS (Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...
...accompanists through the basic jazz vocabulary like a teacher running a spelling bee; posing questions in rhythm and harmony, she would close her eyes to listen for the answers on bass and drums. Often she seemed concerned with cliches. But somehow, when her fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead of jazz. Now, "playing in the tradition...
...glittering productions in the dismal new season on Broadway. It is the motif of the play and the motif of Playwright Jean Anouilh, who is perhaps the most produced of all living playwrights. Since the death of Jean Giraudoux almost 20 years ago, Anouilh (ahn-oo-ee) has been the essential voice of the French theater-a voice that speaks so dryly of shattered hope that you can almost hear it break...
...keeping with Harvard's tradition of intellectual purity and perfection, the Club here will teach Okinawan Uechi-Ryu (pronounced oo-AY-chee ryoo) Karate, a style which adheres closely to the form of discipline as it was taught by the Buddhist monks. (The type of karate which emphasizes board-breaking and other such stunts is a Japanese corruption of the real thing...
...writers of hit parade songs should return to the garbled lyrics of a few years ago when teen-agers were wailing "Oco-oo-oo-ah-ah; Tingtang, Walla-walla bingbang" and the like. Such a philosophy is surely easier for the adolescent mind to handle...