Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nightingale? In Nashville, after being caught by police 50 feet up in a tree outside a nurses' quarters, Thomas E. Parker explained that he was just searching for a bird's nest...
...object of this controversy is a slight, fringe-bearded alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman. No jazzman has created such a stir since Charlie Parker started packing them in at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street 15 years ago. Last week, insiders of the cool world were flocking to a shabby cave in Manhattan...
Something Else. Like many a modern jazzman, Coleman is trying to enlarge the content of jazz by allowing for a greater degree of improvisation. Bop musicians, most notably Parker, attempted the same thing in the 1940s by ignoring traditional rests and introducing low-volume rhythmic subtleties that freed soloists from the slogging swing beat. In the late '40s came the cool style pioneered by Miles Davis, with its lagging beat and light, dry sound...
...Bruce M. Jeffris, president of Parker Pen Co. (1959 sales: $38 million), took over as chief executive officer as Board Chairman Kenneth Parker. 65, retired. Jeffris, 64, is the first chief executive outside the Parker family, but he is not expected to hold the distinction for long. Harvard-educated Daniel Parker, 35, grandson of the firm's founder, is now executive vice president, only a step away from the presidency...
...series dramatizing the works of Ernest Hemingway continues with The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people." With Richard Conte, Eleanor Parker...