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DIED. ILLINOIS JACQUET, 81, innovative tenor saxophonist and bandleader; of a heart attack; in New York City. At 19, playing with Lionel Hampton's band, he bleated out an 80-sec. solo on Flying Home that became legendary. He was a master of the style known as screeching and was equally adept at slow ballads. In addition to playing with most of the jazz giants of his era, he was invited by President Bill Clinton to perform a duet on the White House lawn at his first Inauguration...
DIED. ELVIN JONES, 76, post-bebop drummer best known for pushing the innovative saxophonist John Coltrane to rapturous heights; in New York City. In the early 1950s he refined his explosive, polyrhythmic style in the fertile Detroit jazz scene, and in 1955 he moved to New York, where he recorded with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. He joined Coltrane's quartet in 1960 and later led the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine...
...answer turned out to be simple: perseverance and heaps of cash. Within three weeks, he found a temporary stage for his band. A year later, he had rebuilt his theater for $2.5 million--$1 million more than the insurance settlement. Says saxophonist and bandmate Norman Carlson: "He's always striving to make things work...
...Inspired in part by the music they made, I put my fledgling career as a jazz saxophonist on hold and headed with my girlfriend to experience Havana firsthand. Before long I was playing with El Septeto Tipico de la Habana, a talented and remarkably underpaid group of musicians who played weeknights at la Casa de Amistad (The House of Friendship). The casa was a mansion that had been nationalized to become a cultural institute and was now hosting Puerto Rican socialists on solidarity junkets, Cuban black marketeers and bureaucrats, and the occasional stray tourist...
...never more glorious than on a long summer evening when its medieval streets are filled with the sound of jazz. After a day devoted to touring, swimming or an extremely long lunch, there's nothing like settling into Perugia's Arena Santa Giuliana to hear the endlessly inventive saxophonist Sonny Rollins deconstruct the melody of, say, Thelonious Monk's Crepuscule with Nellie - in just the kind of magical twilight that might have inspired it. Monk's angular ballad could tumble out of Rollins' horn on July 17, when the star headlines the Umbria Jazz Festival. If it does...