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...first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south-central L.A., boxed professionally and played in small jazz clubs for two years. He developed a heroin habit, was caught stealing a record player and thrown in jail. From then on, Sonny bounced back and forth between the state...
Died. Johnny Hodges, 63, saxophonist in Duke Ellington's band and a jazz great for more than 40 years; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...music to encompass the total black experience, says Tenor Saxophonist Archie Shepp: "The field holler, the ring shout,* the sanctified church. That doesn't exclude white people, but if white people are to be included, they must emerge with a kind of humility," For Trumpeter Don Cherry, the music speaks most eloquently for the whole musician. "Man is a species, all human," Cherry observes. "The rest is pastels. Beware of distractions...
...Coltrane. An innovator, his "sheets of sound" technique and long (often 40 minutes) sonata-like solos on sax have revolutionized the jazz world. He was looked up to by other New Thing players as a friend and spiritual leader. "He seemed like a priest, the way he talked," recalls Saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders, a former sideman and now leader of his own group...
...musical experience of Coltrane's fellow avantgardists. Their styles are wildly individual, embracing Taylor's cougar-on-the-keys frenzy, Shepp's piercing shrieks and moans and Cherry's haunting cries. But what they have in common, and have passed on to followers like Saxophonist John Carter, Trumpeter Bobby Bradford and Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, is the sense of a total music that extends outward to the listener like an irresistible magnetic field...