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Britain's ailing textile industry boasts many prestigious names, among them the knights and right honorables that British companies are so fond of. But the name that currently causes the biggest stir is that of Joe Hyman. Organizing a small rayon-finishing company only six years ago, Manchester-born...
SONNY ROLLINS AND COLEMAN HAWKINS: SONNY MEETS HAWK! (RCA Victor). Rollins is the best of the "hard sound" saxophonists, and Hawkins is the prince of lyrical players on the same instrument. Their encounter is hard on the Hawk, perhaps because the sidemen are Sonny's.
Two extraordinary musical events marked Saturday nights's concert: the music of Sonny Rollins and his meeting with Coleman Hawkins, and the performance of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
Rollins, a tenor saxophonist who came out of a self-imposed retirement a few years ago with a whole new set of ideas, is one of the most inventive and original musicians in jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties...
The main events of the festival are four evening concerts to be held tonight through Sunday night. Except for Sunday's concert, scheduled for 6 p.m., all the concerts will begin at 8 p.m. The concerts will feature over thirty different jazz groups, including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk...