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DIED. Thelonious Monk, 64, brilliant and eccentric jazz pianist and founding father of bebop; of a stroke; in Englewood, N. J. As a teenager, Monk honed his highly personal style-skewed melodies, oblique harmonic progressions-in Harlem during the Depression with Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Alto-Saxman Charlie ("Bird") Parker. He developed an angular breakaway from conventional jazz that came to be known as bebop and, finally, bop. His asymmetrical ideas had a powerful influence on modern jazz musicians and a whole generation of horn players, but Monk himself lapsed into virtual obscurity in the 1950s. Rescued by a series...
...again have to think when he goes to the closet. And he laughs his stacatto laugh, as he often does. But he is really very serious about "the beginning of something new." Since closing his guitar case on the streets in September, Meyreles has formed a band with sidekick saxman Kent White, including a guitar, bass and drums. He wants to record an album very soon, and do what he calls "music/theater--I wrote a oneman theater show for myself. I'm a late bloomer. I'm 27. And I've only been performing three years. I haven't even tapped...
...watched. The Pinkies on-stage are as carefully rehearsed as the Rockettes. Says Saxman Dick Parry, who has backed them up, "They've got everything down exactly. Onstage with Floyd there's no spontaneity at all. They've got little pieces of tape everywhere, and if you stand in the wrong place they go crazy." The Pinkies' new stage show is an extravagantly literal representation of the album, including a smoking bomber with an 18-ft. wingspan that buzzes the audience on a guy wire and huge floats representing the song's major characters, among...
...Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards and lively originals. James Taylor: JT (Columbia). Sweet Baby James shows the old homespun ease and comes up with a Handy Man delight...
Last spring Tyner spent part of his five-day Boston tenure giving the audience a preview of his blistering Atlantis album. This time the playing will be more varied. Tyner's supporting staff, traditionally composed of the best music men around, like tenor saxman Azar Lawrence, complement the man who learned the true value of interaction with the master himself, Coltrane. Three shows nightly...