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Today the Rif mountains have become a sort of giant casbah, ruled by an underground that is becoming each day more highly organized. Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow received an anonymous phone call inviting him to visit their camp. A clandestine meeting with Riff leaders in Rabat was followed by a scribbled note of introduction in Arabic; he was led into the hills, first by car and then by mule, handed on from guide to guide. Rocks and bushes along the roads and paths turned out to be camouflaged tribesmen. Time after time he and his guides were stopped...
...main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem less intent on saying anything than on pacing the distance between Birdland and Carnegie Hall...
...André Hodeir (the Kenny Clarke Sextet; Epic). A low-keyed collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
Lester Lanin gave his monogrammed beanies to appreciative dates as he played, but one Clubman remarked that very few members were dancing because "even when you make it a closed party and hire a bouncer, all sorts of riff-raff get in." For one reason or another there wasn't the spirit that the visitor remembered from New Haven last fall...
...Terrorists in the Riff mountains ambushed a French ambulance convoy, killed 19 soldiers and wounded...