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Jazz NOW'S THE TIME! (RCA Victor). After years spent stubbornly exploring the back roads of modern jazz, Tenor Saxophonist Sonny Rollins knows his way unerringly around the territory. He goes off like a firecracker in Miles Davis' Four, takes a postmeridian jaunt in John Lewis' Afternoon in Paris, nods to Charlie Parker in his dry-eyed blues Now's the Time, makes Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight sound fathoms deep...
BLACK PEARLS (Prestige). Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane is the featured soloist, and he zooms boldly off to do some fine, abstract skywriting at Mach 1. Meanwhile, back at the piano, Red Garland waits to deliver earthbound but agreeable interludes of up-tempo swing...
...like a librarian than a revolutionary. But not when he breathes into a saxophone. No sooner had he arrived unheralded in Manhattan in late 1959 than he blew up a typhoon of controversy such as the jazz world had not known since the mid-'40s when now-legendary Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker was blasting out new musical horizons...
...years ago, the sitar has six or seven playing strings, 19 "sympathetic" resonating strings, so sensitive that they must be retuned while being played, and two bulbous gourds at either end for sound boxes. Shankar's sitar artistry has influenced such jazz innovators as Pianist Dave Brubeck and Saxophonists John Coltrane and Bud Shank. At the end of his U.S. tour, Shankar will begin a six- week course in Indian music at U.C.L.A.; local jazzmen are standing in line to enroll. The basis of Indian music is a melodic form called a raga, a series of notes on which...
...rebels against this artistic repression sat last week in a U.S. refugee camp in West Germany-Bassist Igor Berechtis, 31, and Saxophonist Boris Midny, 26. As they told it, the pair decided to defect after sitting in on a 1962 after-hours jam session with members of Benny Goodman's touring band...