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...best tune by the Cannonball Adderley Sextet was Brother John, composed by Yusef Lateef in honor of John Coltrane. Lateef, the group's tenorman, played oboe on this one to achieve a haunting, Middle Eastern effect. He stood absolutely immobile, lost in concentration, while the rest of the band bounced and wiggled...
After excellent sets by the Herbie Mann Sextet and the Dave Brubeck Quartet--both very pleasent groups to listen to on a cool summer evening--a young man slid behind a Hammond organ and almost brought the house down. He was Jimmy Smith, the logical, beautiful extreme of the5ALBERT B. CRENSHAWCOLEMAN HAWKINS...
...festival event, to be held tomorrow at 2 p.m., will be a "New Faces in Jazz" concert. This event will feature the Paul Winter Sextet, which recently became the first modern jazz ensemble to play at the White House. Prof. Marshall Stearns of the City College of New York will produce a program of tap dancing on Saturday afternoon...
...large and happy crowd which packed the roomy Quincy House dining hall, the evening's high point was the performance of the Blue Notes, a sextet which won first prize at the borschtbelt jazz festival at Grossinger's last 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...
Condemnation of the more unpleasant aspects of College Hockey has not been limited to Cambridge or even the East. John Mariucci, coach of the Minnesota sextet, has said "Eastern teams have been the only ones that are doing anything for American hockey." Like Harvard, Minnesota has often refused to compete against such rabid recruiters as Michigan and Denver...