Word: sax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity in the insolent whines of Johnny Hodges' sax on Ballad of the Flying Saucers, the staccato bleats of Trumpeter Ray Nance on Hey, Buddy Bolden...
Lars Gullin: Baritone Sax (Atlantic). Seven pulsingly rhythmic interpretations of old favorites (Summertime, A Foggy Day) and new numbers (Fedja, composed by rising Swedish Jazzman Gullin himself). The numbers get a lift from the free-swinging drumming of Nils-Bertil Dahlander (known as Bert Dale when he toured the U.S.), generally show Swedish jazz to be as cool as iced aquavit...
...Urbane Jazz of Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter (American Recording Society). A witty dialogue between Eldridge's jabbing trumpet and Carter's clean, relaxed alto sax. Worth the price of the record alone: a wailing, heavily percus-sioned version of Eldridge's Polite Blues...
...aerial and a posse of NBC monitors inside widdling their dials. But only a BBC voice and some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...fewer than seven iT.P.s on the market, with three more coming soon, for he plays with an ingratiating style that appeals to jazz lovers without frightening record executives. Does he think it is time to pick up another instrument? "Well," says Elliott wistfully, "I always wanted to play tenor sax or flute. But"-and his determination seems to harden-"I play enough...