Word: sidemen
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...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...
...scribes), speak for themselves. Boston has the best left-fielder and batsman in baseball, Ted Williams, the best rightfielder in baseball, Jackie Jensen, the best third baseman in baseball, Frank Malzone, the finest clutch performer and general handyman in the league, Pete Runnels, plus a large number of reliable sidemen...
...trouble digging up talented drummers, found that most of his sidemen (average age: 23) had a classically oriented training: "They kept giving me the blue-serge treatment. I had to work hard to get that rough-tweed effect." Language was a problem too; Brown's instructions to a sax man, for instance, were delivered to a trombonist, who translated them to a trumpeter, who again translated them for the confused saxophonist. The situation was further complicated by the fact that Brown's band was to play mostly new works, especially commissioned for the festival, e.g., John La Porta...
...hour The Sound of Jazz, the art got what it has so long deserved: a TV showcase uncluttered by the fuss and furbelows that burden most musical telecasts. In the murky, smoke-choked studio, more than two dozen of the best jazz vocalists and sidemen worked through eight of the best jazz numbers with the kind of love, wonder, almost mystical absorption they usually summon up in the most free-wheeling jam sessions...
...Farmingdale (N.Y.) High School Band displayed the driving big-band style of a Count Basic or a Woody Herman, the fancily punctuated choruses of sidemen who have played together for years. With a lazy, slushy beat, the band swung into A Ghost of a Chance, faded while 14-year-old Andrew Marsala launched an intricately woven alto-sax solo, then came back strong and brassy, only to fade again before Marsala's languorous solo finish. Although some of the band members could scarcely reach the floor with their feet, they never lost the instinctive surefire phrasing that produces...