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...strange thing about this Philly International date is that Jean Carn, who used to do some nice jazz with Doug Carn, will be playing with Wansel and his Planets. Maybe people at the workshop think they can attract both the jazz and the disco crowd by including some nice sax with a thumping bass. We'll see. If you so desire, sets for Dexter are 8:30 and 11:00, for Melba: 9 and 11:30. The Mall/Workshop is at 733 Boylston St., right near Copley Square...
Even number five is the Sunday matinee with Donald Byrd and his Blackbyrds, Grover Washington and Webster Lewis. This youth movement should be taken with a skeptical glance. Byrd simply is not that good a trumpeter; Washington does not play that good a sax. Lewis is solid...
...music stands. Microphones arched overhead on long, angled booms. It was not the usual look of the West Ham Central Mission, a turn-of-the-century Methodist church in London's East End, but it has excellent acoustics and is sometimes used for recording sessions. Concertmaster Sidney Sax gave the signal for the orchestra to tune up. Then, from a double door, the frail, stooped figure began a slow walk to the podium, his right hand gripping a sturdy cane, his left on the shoulder of an associate. Carefully, the old man settled into his tall chair...
Assisted by Garth Hudson's swinging gospel organ and the mellow sax work of Tom Scott, Robertson injects a few woodsy rockabilly harmonies. Diamond polishes the whole thing off with the lush strings and clouds of sound that he loves in If You Know What I Mean - a showy, big-band production that clearly has the ring of yet more gold...
Thus, older jazz musicians today no longer hesitate to participate in the evolutionary process. Zoot Sims, 50, the veteran tenor saxophonist, now straddles all styles. Benny Carter, 68, has lent the silken sounds of his alto sax to the torchy voice of thirtyish pop singer Maria Muldaur. Drummer Grady Tate, 44, pounds out extraordinary admixtures of jazz beats and shifting, rocky rhythms...