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...injected new life into some of the old jazz standards. The two numbers which lingered longest in Sander's hot summer air were, no doubt, Ray Brown's "Is There Anything Still There," and Duke Ellington's stock favorite "Satin Doll." Brown's eloquent tune featured a deep sax solo in the Coleman Hawkins vein by Jim Scales, who unfortunately had to battle a couple of over-zealous trumpeters to be heard. "Satin Doll," a likely homage to the Duke's 75th birthday, started out slow with the trombones dominating. But Steve Sack's alto sax solo quickly asserted itself...
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...