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...RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO THEY'RE IN, declared the electric sign atop Chicago's London House. But no one had to be told; the lines of fans snaking around the block last week were testimony enough. Pianist Ramsey Lewis, 30, is not only In, he is the hottest jazz artist going. And amazingly enough, he is going strongest in the rock-'n'-roll market where jazzmen have customarily gone over like the tenor in a burlesque house. The younger generation, it seems, having grown up at a time when the Young Turks of jazz are grimly exploring...
...Eddy came around often enough to make sure his son knew his musical as well as his social scales. By the time he reached Yale, Peter was already a good pianist and a weekend bandleader...
...usual, the most impressive thing was Davidson's technique. He plays with the high wrist and dangling fingers that you often see on Russian pianists. The sound is pretty percussive, and it is hard, with this technique, to be lyrical. But there is an ease on the fast pasages--the pianist gives the impression that he is gathering the keys rather than playing them--that is enviable. When Davidson was pushed from the opening contemplative mood in "Little Sun" to a driving one by his ever-energetic drummer, he began playing octaves in a hard and fast manner, getting that...
Died. Dame Myra Hess, 75, British concert pianist, who passed unnoticed when she made her debut amid the flamboyant virtuosos of the early 1900s, but later established herself as one of the leading musicians of her day, bringing graceful proportion and artistry to the works of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms, during World War II earned the admiration of blitz-weary Londoners and the Order of Dame Commander for inaugurating a six-year series of noontime concerts in the National Gallery; of a heart attack; in London...
Wolfe like to play the waif a little bit, and there is certainly enough instinctive vulnerability in his personal make-up to give credence to the "Tom Sawyer" haircut. Describing a female jazz pianist for whom he briefly led the life of a "prole-bohemian," he said, "I think she was basically interested in me as a Yale grad student. Love should be devoid of status factors, but of course it never is. Yes." The experience of manual labor left him with the conviction that there is no wisdom in the common man. He has never voted, and thinks politics...