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Pharoah Sanders at the Jazz Workshop this week, is a former John Coltrane protege who has succeeded in stretching music even farther than his mentor did. His sax is accomplished in the traditional sense, of course, but a lot of what he plays is likely to leave you bewildered. Expect loads of energy but not much melody...
...parents who were later divorced, he was graduated from Manhattan's George Washington High School, where Henry Kissinger was a fellow student. Greenspan studied clarinet at the Juilliard School, and during World War II joined a dance band (Leonard Garment, now counsel to the President, played the sax). After a year of one-and two-night stands, Greenspan decided that he would prefer to go to college. In 1948 he was graduated summa cum laude in economics from New York University. He worked for The Conference Board (a business research group) for a while, then founded his now-thriving...
...what a varied bunch they are. Corea's group, Return to Forever, favors high, light, sugary sonorities and palpitating Latin rhythms. The six-man combo Weather Report, with Shorter on sax, plays with the sweep and sonic power of a full symphony orchestra. Cobham manages to mass his colors with a big-band kind of majesty yet retain the kind of rollicking spontaneity that a Stan Kenton, say, never was able to achieve. Larry Coryell, whose new band, The Eleventh House, plays a tight, virtuosic blend of traditional white rock and jazz, never attended the Davis conservatory...
Charles Lloyd is finishing up at the Performance II during the next few days. Lloyd plays sax and flute with a full back-up group. His salad days, whatever they are, are reportedly over and his music tends to get a little hairy nowadays. There are much better ways of spending your money this weekend...
Charles Lloyd will be at the Performance Center II playing free-form sax and flute, probably in a quartet including piano, bass and drums. Lloyd started out in the fifties and hit it big on a European tour in the mid-sixties, when he had Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette in his band and first branched out into improvisational stuff. Lloyd's salad days are apparently over now and his music can get pretty atonal at times, but he'll at least put on an unusual show...