Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests: Singers Cab Galloway and Julie London, Comedian Jack Durant, Singer-Pianist Norma Douglas...
...Lucerne Milk (U.S.) is peddled by "Satellite McCool," a beatnik, bop-talking pianist, busy playing far-out music. Asked for his musical preference, Satellite says he likes his own stuff. "I mean classical, like Beethoven. Where is it??" Asked for the essence of his philosophy, he answers dreamily: "Where am I??" Then he pulls a container of Lucerne Milk out of the piano...
...match it." He never strayed from a perfect sense of balance and ensemble. And this had the fortunate result that the violin and 'cello were never compelled to force their tone to the point of raspiness, which so often happens with an overpowering pianist. These three artists demonstrated clearly that chamber music is a collaborative rather than a competitive...
...reminiscence of the hard-blowing early '303. Jogged by a telephone call from one of his old partners, the narrator recalls the rise and fall of the combo they formed. The group begins as a trio, built around an astonishingly good young trumpeter. Then the saxman finds a pianist at a Harlem rent party, and the trio sounds even better as a quartet. Bookings pick up, and with the addition of two more saxophonists and a drummer, the outfit seems on the point of blowing itself a big name...
Music for a Summer Night (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* An earnest effort to show that even though the network dropped the Voice of Firestone, it can still put on an exceedingly pleasant pop concert. With Metropolitan Baritone Theodor Uppman, Soprano Elaine Malbin, Pianist Earl Wild, Broadway Songstress Jacquelyn McKeever and Comedienne Alice Ghostley...