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Sandy's jazz Revival on 54 Cabot St. in Beverly hosts jazz organist Wild Bill Davis and Count Basie's saxophonist Buddy Tate Through Saturday...
Died. Louis Jordan, 66, saxophonist, blues singer and bandleader, whose Tympany Five combo cut several top-selling discs in the 1940s, including Is You Is or Is You Ain 't My Baby?, Caldonia, and Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Clemert Lee has been a Denver Post reporter, a saxophonist and clarinetist, a court reporter and a Navy security guard. Now, however, Lee is 80 and, because "no one wants to hire a man my age," he went into business for himself three years ago. His job, as he puts it, is "cleaning up America...
Gerry Mulligan, at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday, is an exuberant baritone saxophonist who came up through the big-band establishment and is now ever-so-slightly progressive. He usually plays with a piano-bass-drums quartet, and he names his songs after esoteric novels sometimes. You should probably also be warned that Mulligan is a perennial member of the Playboy all-star jazz band...
Even in so broad a musical spectrum-part nostalgia, part status quo, part innovation-the jazz rockers are a stylish group apart. That is due as much as anything to the fact that most of them-Pianists Hancock and Chick Corea, Guitarist John McLaughlin, Saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Drummer Billy Cobham-are graduates of the Miles Davis band, where the movement got off the ground back in 1970 with Davis' first all-out fusion of jazz and rock, the double LP album Bitches Brew...