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...Monterey Jazz Festival in California last week, Composer-Saxophonist John Handy and his quartet launched into their opening number. Crash. A microphone toppled over. Handy tried to recover with a spiraling solo, but just as he built to a climax, the roar of a Boeing 727 jet drowned him out. Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash...
...Tune on Broadway. The early years of royal rule in Bangkok were quiet. Both the King and Queen learned to paint, and some of their canvases adorn the walls of Chitralada Palace. The King perfected his considerable skills as a saxophonist and composer; one of his tunes, Blue Night, made the Broad way scene in Mike Todd's 1950 production Peep Show. The royal couple had four children, three girls and a boy, Prince Vajiralongkorn, who is now studying in England, prepping for Rug by school and kingship as Rama X. And like his ancestors, Bhumibol in the tenth...
Jazz THE NEW WAVE IN JAZZ (Impulse!). Five combos, led by avant-garde Jazzmen John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur and Albert Ayler. "Trane" sets the stage by skywriting his personal hieroglyphics with his tenor sax. Even farther out is Saxophonist Ayler. His Holy Ghost consists of hysterical, sizzling squiggles of sound played fast and high, while a drummer beats insistently, as though knocking on a locked door. "It's about feelings," Ayler explains...
ANGEL EYES (Columbia). Dave Brubeck's quartet plays Matt Dennis' songs without words, although Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond seems to speak sweet somethings in Violets for Your Furs, and Brubeck makes some conventional but well-turned pianistic comments on The Night We Called...
Marriage Revealed. Sandy Dennis, 28, Broadway's Tony Award-winning golden innocent in Any Wednesday, currently filming Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? alongside Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor; and Gerry Mulligan, 38, cool jazz saxophonist; he for the second time; in Connecticut; in June...