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...Ornette Coleman. With the Newport Festival languishing, Monterey can now lay claim to being the country's classiest jazz display case. The musicians seem to like it because they can play what they please and because the audiences are mannerly and serious. In a too-esoteric introduction of Saxophonist Coleman last week, Composer Gunther Schuller remarked earnestly that "he comes to us naked." Snapped a middle-aged lady: "Not in Monterey, he doesn...
With the proceeds of his fame-some $700,000 in all-Sahl supports his now-retired parents, pays $900 a month alimony to Sue, who divorced him in 1957 and now dates his best friend, Jazz Saxophonist Paul Desmond. Once short on toys, he can no longer make the claim, has filled his rented home in West Hollywood's hills with 14 radios, four TV sets and two hi-fi sets that blare until 4 a.m., wearing out his Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck records. The unshaven campus rat looking for work has become a hard-working future millionaire...
...object of this controversy is a slight, fringe-bearded alto saxophonist named Ornette Coleman. No jazzman has created such a stir since Charlie Parker started packing them in at the Three Deuces on 52nd Street 15 years ago. Last week, insiders of the cool world were flocking to a shabby cave in Manhattan...
...Saxophonist Coleman decided a long time ago that he could not play like other jazzmen, but it was not until recently that he found anybody who would listen to him-or even play with him. Born 30 years ago in Fort Worth, Texas, the son of a sometime baseball player and singer, he taught himself how to play the sax when he was 14, went on the road with smalltime bands. Once in Baton Rouge, a crowd so detested his playing that they smashed his sax, and Bandleader Pee Wee Crayton hired him and then wound up paying...
...Anything Goes (Benny Carter and Hal Schaefer; United Artists). A hipster's eye view of Cole Porter. Alto Saxophonist Carter and Pianist Schaefer romp exuberantly, with the aid of assorted sidemen. through I Love Paris, Anything Goes, You're the Top, transforming these Broadway classics into a crackling bed of hot Coles. Arranger Schaefer's most improbable invention: a version of C'est Magnifique opening with a snatch of the Lohengrin wedding march...