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...Mind (RCA Victor) puts Mulligan in the company of Saxophonist Paul Desmond, who rarely swings at his regular employment as Dave Brubeck's commentator, but here is the match of Mulligan himself...
...orchestra sawed through three Lewis compositions and one by J. J. Johnson, producing milky overstatements of nice little ideas. Solos by Saxophonist Phil Woods and Vibraharpist Milt Jackson nimbly demonstrated that what would have been fragile, intricate music for a quartet had been made fragmentary, timid music for an orchestra. In his scoring, Lewis seemed barely able to tell his strings from his brass: the violins and cellos were misused in pursuit of inconsequential filigree, while the basses took long and vapid solo runs. Lewis had gone perilously far in the quest to make jazz more respectable without making...
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...