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Another junior, Mike Tschudin, was ubiquitous: his five-man ensemble played three sets of his own compositions and he wrote the music for two of the Jazz Dance Workshop's four sequences. Tschudin showed himself to be a skillful, full-handed pianist, but his music lacked real emotional impact. His quintet played pleasant, solid jazz when its members felt themselves able to swing freely. But they couldn't stay together when they played from sheet music; the pieces of paper diverted their attention from each other...
COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of disdainful dismay. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by a straight man, noted Pianist Leonid Hambro...
PHILLY JOE JONES & ELVIN JONES TOGETHER (Atlantic), Two top drummers (no kin) trade solos in triumphant tattoos and combine in layered rhythms to launch some short flights by Trumpeter Blue Mitchell, Pianist Wynton Kelly and other swingers. Philly Joe rattles the right stereo, Elvin the left...
...BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Dancers Patricia McBride and Edward Villella, Pianist Andre Previn, and the Brothers Four. Color...
Instead of doing a one-man show as he did nine years ago on Broadway, Borge this time does a kind of one-and-a-half-man show with Leonid Hambro as co-pianist and straight man. Borge sort of excludes him in, and satirizes the egomania of stars by scraping the mike head along the floor like a vacuum cleaner during Hambro's only solo number. Later, in a howling display of virtuosity, the duo intertwine legs, arms and hands and march their fingers up the keyboard in a centipede's version of Liszt's Second...