Word: organized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of Howard McGhee, who was an important bop trumpeter in the late forties and has returned from the living death of narcotics to resume his place in the jazz world. McGhee's quartet includes a 19-year-old Bostonian, Phil Porter, whose bluesy, rocking organ mixes perfectly, with McGhee's completely honest horn. Unlike so many musicians who wander aimlessly through a solo, McGhee plays solos which are each a single coherent message simply and forthrightly expressed...
After excellent sets by the Herbie Mann Sextet and the Dave Brubeck Quartet--both very pleasent groups to listen to on a cool summer evening--a young man slid behind a Hammond organ and almost brought the house down. He was Jimmy Smith, the logical, beautiful extreme of the5ALBERT B. CRENSHAWCOLEMAN HAWKINS...
...tasks, he finally produced the Spoils of War-a big and ugly one-man band strung up on a gallows and made from artillery shell casings, cloud-chamber bowls (from the Radiation Laboratories at Berkeley), a blow-boy (composed of bellows, a 1912-auto-exhaust horn and three organ pipes), a whang gun ("WHANG-OOOO," it hoots when struck), and a raspidor that sounds like mice scratching inside a wall...
Carnovsky's voice is rich and varied, though it lacks the full-organ sonority that some of the passages cry out for. He is equal to the speeches of denunciation, and can make the word "recreant" sound like the vilest epithet in the language...
...nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among the assorted gypsies, crippled pensioners, organ grinders and ban-thefox-hunt ladies, are really Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra and Robert Mitchum...