Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start with the Dizzy Gillespie big band in the '40s. He was part of a rhythm section which included John Lewis on piano, Kenny Clarke on drums, and Ray Brown on bass. Clarke, Lewis, and Milt, with Percy Heath pickin' bass later went on to form the Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ). But, before the group acquired that famous name, it was called the Milt Jackson Quartet (still MJQ). Milt was its natural leader while Lewis provided the driving innovative musical compositional force key to the quartet's success...
DIED. Paul Scott, 57, British novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on his experiences as a soldier in India during World War II. His interlocking 2,000-page masterpiece is a blending of private and public histories that evokes a doomed world of racism and heroics...
...Crimson women also fared well in the glamour event for Thursday, the 800-yd, freestyle relay, as a first-rate foursome rallied to a third-place finish. Kelly and Downey joined Jane Fayer and Sherry Lubbers to turn in a 7:59.84 clocking, eight seconds better than the quartet's time at the Ivy Championships...
...replay of their dual meet here in Cambridge exactly one month ago, the outcome of the contest between the two swimming powers depended on that of the last relay. Trailing only 332-330 going into the event, Harvard sent the explosive quartet of Malcolm Cooper, Duncan Pyle, Julian Mack and Hackett to the blocks amidst the absolute bedlam that surrounded the most exciting finish to an Eastern championship meet in years...
...Crimson's advantage is a bit misleading, as most observers expected yesterday to be Harvard's highest-scoring day in the three-day extravaganza. In the 200 Medley Relay--an event that many picked Harvard to win--Princeton's quartet of Alan Fine, Chuck Hector, Bill Specht and Andy O'Hara splashed to victory...