Word: saxophonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most Negroes, says Negro Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley, "felt that swing had to be there for the jazz to be valid. They weren't much interested in the new West Coast music. They were convinced that Brubeck's music was not jazz." Result: few Negroes were involved in West Coast jazz. As its popularity increased, so did the resentment of Negro jazz leaders, who were getting fewer and fewer dates. "The irony of the thing is," says Stan Kenton. "that this group of musicians, who never had any problems before, all of a sudden were at odds...
Colored Cats Bitched. For all that, most Negro jazzmen are as concerned as the whites about the effects of prejudice in either direction. Querulous Trumpeter Miles Davis has always insisted on hiring his musicians on talent only, although he concedes that "some colored cats bitched" when he added white Saxophonist Lee Konitz to his group. (In jazz argot, the pressure applied by Negro bigots to Negroes who will not subscribe to Crow Jim is called Crow Crow; its opposite is Jim Jim.) Says Negro Saxophonist Sonny Stitt: "Man. if a guy can play, that's all that counts...
...State Department-sponsored tour of Latin America. It was simple, Byrd discovered, "to play a very full jazz solo with this stuff; you can do a great deal that you can't do with regular four-four time." Byrd cut a bossa nova album with Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz. Soon there were bossa nova recordings by, among others, Vibraharpist Cal Tjader, Bandleader Lionel Hampton, Saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Zoot Sims. The record companies, hungry for a trend, are now ready to rush 15 or so albums with bossa nova numbers onto the market. Among the featured performers: Peggy...
...afternoon. As soon as the bus pulled out. the bandsmen settled down to the jazz world's two favorite antidotes to boredom-poker (rear of the bus) and drinking (front). Kenton rode in the well at the front door. A few lucky musicians were able to sleep, notably Saxophonist Joel Kaye, who at 140 lbs. is small enough to slip into the overhead luggage rack. A couple of other bandsmen listened over individual earphones to the tape recorder that Kenton had installed at the start of the tour. Favorite listening: Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Puccini...
FOCUS (Stan Getz; Verve). For reasons obscure, jazz musicians these days have a yen to go classical. This latest attempted fusion of longhair and brushcut involves seven pieces for string ensemble by Composer-Arranger Eddie Sauter against which Saxophonist Getz pins his softly twining improvisations. The string pieces are in fact little more than an assortment of film-style clichés, but Getz's solos-soaring, tumbling and melting-are worth the price of the album...