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...turns coy and playful, ten der and savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods of a man looking back on sunnier days. Love Vibrations. Lloyd is the newest prophet of New Wave jazz - the freeform explorations made familiar by such saxmen as John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman. His rapport with his sidemen, especially inventive Pianist Keith Jarrett, verges on the extrasensory. The quartet's appeal is that, for all its flights of fancy, its fractured rhythms and criss-crossing harmonies, its music makes sense. Free of the pedantry and obscurantism that...
...wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham and Dicky Wells. Among the treasures: Wang Wang Blues, Christopher Columbus, Henderson's own exuberant Can You Take...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle...
...tasteful sweet music. His "Dream of You" was voted outstanding dance record of the year in 1938 by one of the largest swing clubs in the country. His "Remember When," an old Victor recording, makes "Gloomy Sunday" seem something like a nursery rhyme. And on all of his records, saxmen Willie Smith and Joe Thomas, brass men Oliver, Webster, and Young, and the rhythm section provide good solos. Incidentally, if you think Harry James plays high trumpet, listen to Mr. Webster; he's the highest in the business...
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