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Harvard Band. The same Harvard Band that performs unnatural acts on the football field also has an excellent concert organization. This Saturday, they are playing Walter Piston's Tunbridge Fair in honor of the composer's eightieth birthday. They also will have saxophonist Donald Sinta as a guest soloist in pieces by Benson and Whitney. But I'd really like to hear the Bach C Minor Passacaglia transcription...
ALSO: Folk singer Mike Seeger plays Kirkland House Sunday, sponsored by the Folk Song Society of Greater Boston...Every Monday saxophonist and all-around reed-player John Payne stirs up some fine jazz at the Oxford Ale House. Payne almost stole the show two Springs ago from Bonnie Raitt and Peter Johnson in a Sanders Theater free concert. He's one of the great sidemen on Raitt's Give It Up album...
...clear high notes and revealed the saddening fact that Dizzy Gillespie at age 56 is slowly losing his chops. This did not keep Dizzy from playing five tremendous measures at the end of "A Night in Tunisia," although Dizzy, in deference, let Faddis blow the famous highnote ending. Tenor saxophonist Stan Getz and drummer Blakely also were particularly strong...
...generations. Although there were many dynamic individual performances, there was noticeable tension between some of the younger and older artists. For example, the solo by electric guitarist Larry Coryele was sensational, but it seemed as if he was being unintentionally repressed by the necessity of the standard traditional repertoire. Saxophonist Sonny Stitt was solid, and John Mayall, a man who appeals to both the early and later elements of jazz and blues, did a good job on vocals and harmonica...
Rosen suggests that it is too late to do anything about the problem unless performers are allowed to bring back the scores and the great art of improvising. Ideally, they should have the abandon of the jazz saxophonist or the Serbian bard hatching his epic. Another solution, it might be added, would be luring composers from their suburban comfort to play their own music. Until then, he notes, one thing that can alleviate stage fright is "the absolute certainty of a botched performance." In coming upon a piano with a sticky pedal or a defective hammer action, says Rosen...