Word: quintet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite bop." By the end of his first year his good manners had begun paying off. He organized a soft-spoken bop quintet, got a record contract and the first of a long series of nightclub dates...
...jazz public seemed to be catching on to the handle Shearing offered them. Metronome readers rated his quintet first among U.S. jazz combos for last year. He had been voted second place among popular jazz pianists in Down Beat's 1949 poll. With the quintet's recording schedules doubled to meet the demand and bookings racked up as far ahead as August, Shearing had filed naturalization papers, was looking for a home to settle down in with his wife and seven-year-old daughter...
Stravinsky: Mass (Double wind quintet and chorus of men and boys, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Stravinsky intended this Mass to be "absolutely cold," avoiding sentimentality. It is skillfully and coldly composed, but rather dull. Sung in church, it might induce more apathy than reverence. Performance and recording: excellent...
Princeton, League champion placed two men on the first five, George Sella and Bernie Adams. Jim Osbourn of Yale runner-up to Rockwell in the scoring race, Herb Lyon of Penn, and Columbia's John Azary also won places on the first quintet...
Dudley's second-place quintet is loaded with good guards. Andy Redman, Bob Hoffman, Herb Waite, and Bill Maytum stand out in the effective close man-to-man defensive tactics and are all good ball-handlers, and towering Carl Marshall protects the keyhole for the Commuters. Herb Lewis is somewhat smaller, but is a fast floor man and center Brad Ryan is usually the smoothest player on the court. Dudley also uses a double-pivot, and is the only team that has knocked off the Deacons...