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DIED. Edward ("Sonny") Stitt, 58, swinging jazz saxophonist in the tradition of Charlie Parker; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Stitt, a jazz scholar once said, knows "every lick and trick in the book...
DIED. Art Pepper, 56, gifted but tortured jazz musician who established himself as a top alto saxophonist with the Stan Kenton orchestra in the late 1940s and early 1950s and for years waged a war against his drug habit, which he detailed in his 1979 autobiography, Straight Life; of a stroke; in Los Angeles. He once said of his reliance on heroin to relieve his anguish and self-doubt: "If this is what it takes, then this is what I'm going to do, whatever dues I have to pay." During one 16-year period, he marked more time...
...this changes, however, when Randolph gives his theory of the cases--an increasingly bizarre trip through the reaches of what pilots call the envelope--a theory of music, of being, a crypto-musical little speech which marks the real opening of Shepard's floodgates. When Petrone, a neighboring saxophonist (played by Nick Wyse looking for all the world like DeNiro in New York, New York) and Laureen, a neighboring bass player (Grace Shohet), arrive, an inner circle rears its head, signalling the end of the commonplace relationship which have gone thus far. And even then Niles himself (Brian McCue) arrives...
...funeral. The voice of English-born Drummer Andrew Hall, leader of Society Jazz: "You know his music had real feeling. He was funny too. He used to stick his finger in his ears while he was playing to check intonation. Said he could hear himself better that way." Tenor Saxophonist Teddy Johnson: "He was always ready for a laugh, always joking, making up nicknames for people. I called him Big Chief." There is wordless comment in the fact that musicians from not only Society Jazz but several other bands (Olympia, Tuxedo) have turned out to make sure that...
Band members will also sightsee, spend a day at the beach, dine at the American Embassy, and talk with other jazz students at the University of Santiago. "It will be a good vacation," said Donald H. Perlo '83, a saxophonist...