Word: sidemen
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...EVANS: CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF (Verve). No one in jazz broods quite as beautifully as Bill Evans, a player of inner-ear music so intensely private that just hearing it seems an intrusion. Here, by means of three spliced piano sound tracks, Evans converses aloud with himself with out eavesdropping sidemen. In the unique trio for pianos that results, his accompaniment of himself is a fascinating treatise on his icy musical intelligence...
...Hours with Thelonious Monk (Riverside) is time exceptionally well spent with the ranking genius of jazz. On recordings made during his 1961 European tour, Monk runs through the core of his repertory (18 tracks on two LPs), but his message eludes his three breathless sidemen...
...about the music. Since they are given more to worship than appreciation, they seldom develop an ear-only an attitude. Often, as in his current series of seminars at Manhattan's Five Spot, Monk, for one, will spend a whole night horsing around on his piano while his sidemen accompany him with all the enthusiasm of cops frisking drunks. On other nights he plays brilliantly and the sidemen follow with insight and devotion-but the applause is just the same, Monk's audience is far too devoted to him to worry about his music...
...local now lists 11,500 members-with only about 1,000 of them at work. Several times Petrillo autocratically ordered a raise for sidemen without consulting either musicians or management. Result: bandleaders lopped off players to hold down costs; the Edgewater Beach Hotel, for one, slashed its 18-man orchestra to a five-man combo...
...great swing bands, in a sampling of the incendiary brews he poured from the bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham and Dicky Wells. Among the treasures: Wang Wang Blues, Christopher Columbus, Henderson's own exuberant Can You Take...