Word: quintets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began composing under French impressionist influence, became fascinated by Javanese music, and incorporated the Oriental influence in such five-and six-notescale works as In a Myrtle Shade and Wai Kiki. His talent, as shown in recordings of Notturno for Orchestra and Three Tone Pictures for Double Quintet and Piano, was for richly colored works with strangely shifting rhythms that convey an almost trancelike effect...
Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley is a jazzman with a nagging, but not unique, problem: the more successful he becomes, the less his original, far-out fans like him. One of his recent albums, The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (Riverside), sold 50,000 copies-phenomenal for a jazz record-and climbed to the bestseller charts along with such towering competitors as Fireside Sing Along with Mitch. Last week Cannonball and his men were shouting it up at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop. "The rhythm," complained a beard to a ponytail, "doesn't hang together...
...instead of sitting reflectively in their chairs, they were standing on them screaming. On the bandstand, Cannonball looked like a large, comfortable Buddha, sleepily contemplating some secret pleasure. But when he raised his hamlike right hand and with popping fingers lined out the beat, the music of his quintet came pouring forth with an urgent, camp-meeting-style exuberance that no other group can come close to matching these days...
Cannonball is a brilliant improviser and he stitches his agile figures with a warmth of tone, a turbulence, and a gusto that is the envy of every other saxman in the business. In their most popular number-This Here, by Pianist Bobby Timmons-the quintet pours cool brass over the driving beat in long, looping lines that seem to glide through the roof and into the night...
...current crop of Broadway offerings, published tidings that Mother is having heavy going onstage right now as the ideal of every red-blooded American boy and girl. In five dramas now seething in Manhattan, Mom is depicted as a mean lady, a monster, or absolute family nemesis. The quintet: Bye Bye Birdie, Five Finger Exercise, Gypsy, Toys in the Attic, Once Upon a Mattress. Interviewing some of the stage mothers involved, the Trib also learned that any actress can forgive herself for playing an unsympathetic role. As Kay Medford, the all-possessive Mom of Bye Bye Birdie...