Word: previn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Future shows (Thursdays at 9:30 p.m., E.D.T.) will have Peggy Lee, André Previn, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Greco and Chris Connor, among others. As of now, the show will expire September 13th, when, with feather duster and senseless sighs. Hazel returns to take its place. But the show has already attracted such favorable attention that Producer Shear is getting executive-suite feelers for a possible winter series...
DUET (Doris Day with the André Previn Trio; Columbia). A honey of a partnership. Doris has just the right baby-blue style to complement Previn's elegantly simple arrangements, and the material is right for both of them: Close Your Eyes, Nobody's Heart, My One and Only Love...
Sound of the Sixties (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). John Daly narrates a special program on sights and sounds in contemporary and future American life. Stars include Art Carney, Vic Damone, Tony Randall, Mahalia Jackson, Andre Previn and Pat Harrington...
...only a few bars ahead while improvising, Jackson envisions a whole piece in his head. Seated at the piano, he looks elegantly relaxed-but is usually as tense as a nightclub comic building for a saving laugh. Jackson's playing has the facile quality of an André Previn, but with it a far more propulsive drive. An Art Tatum-ish right hand embroiders the melody, and the tempo is always subject to change. Sometimes Jackson opens with eloquent slowness, then double-times the theme with marvelous results. Or he may start with a rocking jazz attack and shift...
...paintings were the work of tall, gaunt James Strombotne, 26, one of the most promising of the young figurative artists now working around Los Angeles. Such Hollywood-type collectors as Otto Preminger, Andre Previn and Billy Wilder own canvases by him, and so does Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Strombotne is featured in Art in America's annual "New Talent, U.S.A.," and the Pasadena Art Museum is planning the most precocious honor of all-a full-fledged retrospective next fall...