Word: sax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than 24 hours after the operation, both patient and doctor were doing fine. Jazz Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 59, underwent cataract surgery on his right eye and then, together with his ophthalmologist, amateur saxophone player Dr. Charles Kelman he played a gig in Harlem. Besides blowing sax, Dr. Kelman is writing the score for a projected Broadway show and trying for a breakthrough pop song. So far he is ahead in the eye department: he developed a pioneering procedure for cataract surgery (applicable only in special cases) that shortens recovery time from seven weeks to a minimum of four hours...
...MAIN ATTRACTION, of course, was Winter, a ghostly figure in silver-sparkled sneakers and knee pads to protect him during his stage acrobatics. Winter played keyboards, drums and sax with a vengeance, but the crowd reacted most to his haunting voice that can range from a mellow bass to a piercing shriek. Most of this show was shrieking, as Winter opened with his driving "Keep Playing That Rock and Roll" and went straight through to his last encore of "Undercover Man" without letting...
Lenny Baker, the personable rotundity who plays sax and sings tenor for Sha Na Na has been greasing up for pay for almost four years. Yet other than the little dab of Brylcreme before each show, he hasn't had to alter his character to fill his role as the jolly good humor man of the group...
Baker has been playing sax since he was 12 years old (he's now 27), and he concedes that music is his life. When he isn't playing for Sha Na Na, he's playing in jam sessions down on Cape Cod. Yet as much as music means to him, he doesn't see the Sha Na Na act as strictly musical...
Right next door to Paul's is the Jazz Workshop, the best thing that's happened to local jazz enthusiasts since Louise Day Hicks lost her sax. Rahsaan Roland Kirk will be at the Workshop until Sunday, and if you like good jazz, make sure...