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...Friends (Ben Webster, tenor sax; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Red Mitchell, bass; Stan Levey, drums; Fantasy). Trombonist Harris, who sometimes sounds as if he were blowing through several folds of velvet, is the weakest operative on an album chiefly distinguished by the pensive unfolding of some fine solos by Saxman Webster. In Where Are You?, I Surrender, Dear and In a Mello-tone, Webster articulates his longings with spacious ease and a tone as husky with melancholy as a distant-sounding foghorn...
Death of a Poet. Author Holmes, a leading member of San Francisco's Beat Generation, makes the usual novelist's disclaimer: his characters are not real people. Still, reading his book, any sensitive cat might think of someone like Tenor Saxman Lester Young or Charley ("Yard-bird") Parker (who died in 1955 at the age of 35 because he behaved too much like Edgar Pool). The prototype for Geordie. The Horn's No. 1 chick, might be someone like Jazz Singer Billie Holiday. Actually, the resemblances are not important. This is a standard jazz story and, beyond...
Ellington at Newport (Columbia). An audible report on the highly charged performance of Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue, which set Newport bloods to stomping up the aisles last summer. Most notable: the supple solo by Tenor Saxman Paul Gonsalves, who lovingly rocks through no fewer than 27 choruses...
...memorize and play a piece we don't like the way a legit musician can," Dave said when he first heard Howard's plans. But he changed his mind when he heard Howard's fast-breaking, dissonant orchestral score. "It's O.K.," said Alto Saxman Paul Desmond. "Everything's out of tune...
...Trolley Song (Dave Brubeck Quartet; Fantasy 45 r.p.m. single). One of Pianist Brubeck's and Alto Saxman Paul Desmond's most popular numbers, unmasked. One side of the disk has the finished product; the other shows how it was put together in rehearsal. "Hard to keep up," murmurs Dave as he fingers a tricky accompaniment figure. "Listen,'' he warns his combo. "If I'm going to play this, boy, I want you guys in on the beats you're playing as hard as you can play . . . umpeta-pah, umpeta-pah . . ." The bass man thumps...