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...Alto Saxophonist McLean and his sextet spend much of this album on the wayout side of traditional harmonic borders, yet their energetic improvisation never quite descends to pandemonium. The group's most piercingly effective exchanges between alto, trumpet, trombone and the rhythm sections take place on Conversation Point and Erdu. On a track called Soul, they lay down a blues background for Poetess Barbara Simmons as she recites her tribute to blackness...
Miss Leaf, who teaches life class at Manhattan's Parsons School of Design and is married to Jazz Saxophonist Joel Press, describes how she developed her unusual style of sculpture: "I was watching a friend upholster a couch and I got excited looking inside and seeing all the springs and workings. I thought I could use similar materials to make some big figures." One of her early efforts was a huge, whorelike Statue of Liberty reclining on a couch, done as a float for the Freedom Day Parade in Manhattan. "I liked her, but she was destroyed immediately...
Craig lives with his family in Van Nuys, gets top marks in the tenth grade of Grant High School. His father, a onetime jazz saxophonist, recently gave up his job as an insurance agent to manage his son's business affairs. A precocious student (his IQ is 184), Craig started taking classical piano lessons at nine, switched to jazz at twelve after listening to the cool, cerebral playing of Bill Evans. Soon there were other models: Peterson, Peter Nero, George Shearing. "For a while," Craig admits, "I sounded like those guys, but now it's my own sound...
Breaking Up. From the beginning of their career, The Who have been known more for their nonmusical put-ons than their musical output. They were formed in 1964 when Townshend, the son of a dance-band saxophonist in suburban London, met the other three in school. Their early local successes were based on imitations of U.S. blues and rock 'n' roll performers (John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley). Later, they pioneered in pop-art costumes, such as jackets made from Union Jacks. Then they began literally breaking things up-and probably inspired the guitar-burning antics of Singer Jimi...
JOHN COLTRANE: EXPRESSION (Impulse!). To some listeners, this record may seem little more than an all-consuming squeal-in. Yet Coltrane fans will treasure it as the last one made by the great tenor saxophonist before his death ten months ago. What Expression offers is the fascination of hearing a man's agonizing struggle to draw some personal, ultimate meaning from recalcitrant music...