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JIMMY WOODS SEXTET: CONFLICT (Contemporary). Alto Saxophonist Woods means to play an "engaged" jazz that is a strong and sharply protesting comment on the Negro in America-his sound is a shriek, a cry, a noise from the streets. Here, with six of his own compositions, his message is as unmistakable as a punch in the stomach. On drums is Elvin Jones, whose cruel talent it is to force from other musicians more music than they know is hidden in their horns...
BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums...
Rollins, a tenor saxophonist who came out of a self-imposed retirement a few years ago with a whole new set of ideas, is one of the most inventive and original musicians in jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties with rhythm, his superb sense of timing prevents him from losing the feeling of swing. Rollins' meeting with Coleman Hawkins created the kind of excitement which Thelonious Monk's meeting with Pee Wee Russell completely failed to engender. The exchange of ideas between Rollins, with his jabbing, knife-like tones...
Real Ambassadors. The cool ones have spawned a whole school of sober-sided musicians who mistake the trancelike atmosphere of the nightclubs for concert-hall attentiveness. Their ambition is to brighten up jazz's image. Saxophonist Paul Winter, who came on the scene with a White House concert, is among the many who think that the presence of booze and dark lust in the nightclubs is harmful to their art. Winter, who figures that jazz musicians can be of greater help to the world's teetering countries than Peace Corpsmen or even helicopter pilots, wants them to clean...
...year. The Blue Notes, four of whom are also in Gary Berger's band, played five jazz standards with astonishing competence; there arrangements were often original, their ensemble work sharp and clean. But individual solos are the test of small-group jazz, and the Blue Notes' soloists shone. Tenor Saxophonist Ben Friedman, a real crowd-pleaser, is technically master of his instrument. His best solo, on Thelonius Monk's Straight, No Chaser, was a honking, exuberant anthology of tenor sax styles, jumping from Johnny Hodges to Ornette Coleman to John Coltrane with deftness and humor. Friedman is strongly influenced...