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Meanwhile over at Sandy's jazz revival in Beverly, will be Buddy De Franco and his quintet. De Franco is an inventive clarinetist...
...Broadway musical, operetta or grand opera itself, the musical stage has few works as innocent and pure as Treemonisha. Joplin called his work an opera and structurally it is one. He wrote his own libretto and decked it out with orchestral preludes, choruses, solos, duos, even a quintet, in a way that indicated he probably knew the works of Weber and Flotow. The spirit of the work, though, hovers somewhere between operetta and masque. The use of ragtime is limited to exhilarating dance finales: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed de Horn at the end of Act I and A Real Slow...
Died. Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, 46, lyrical, driving jazz saxophonist; of a heart attack, 25 days after suffering a paralyzing stroke on his way to a gig; in Gary, Ind. Son of a Florida musician who weaned him on jazz, Adderley arrived in New York in 1955 with a quintet that included his brother Nat on the cornet. First billed as the heir apparent to Altoist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Adderley became more eclectic as he forged his own musical identity with Miles Davis' group from 1957-59 and later with his own revived quintet. His playful bantering with audiences...
...Harvard Summer Chamber Players have augmented their regular series of Monday night concerts with a special one this Saturday night in Paine Hall. Two of the group's professional artists--flutist Paula Robison and Cellist Laurence Lesser--will join the younger artists in performing the famous Nieissen woodwind quintet along with trio sonatas from the baroque period. The concert will be free, and to make the evening complete, refreshments will be served. Paine Hall (music building...
...East Bay City Jazz Band will be laying down a mainstream sound at the Scotch and Sirloin, followed on Thursday by the Buzzy. Drootin Quintet, perhaps the best house band playing standards in Boston...