Word: solo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Solo Lights Out. Then the dancers come out, lay their swords and scabbards in a cross on the floor and perform the Gillie Callum, or individual sword dance (which is said to date from 1054). Their arms held aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes...
Earl "Fatha" Mines Solo (Fantasy LP), the first solo album in years by one of the granddaddies of the modern jazz piano. The selections-My Monday Date, Deep Forest, R. R. Blues-span much of the "Fatha's" career, starting with the late '20s, when he was jamming with Louis Armstrong in Chicago. The left hand is as bouncy and ebullient as ever; the famous "trumpet" right hand still shimmies over the keys and chops out the big, gaudy chords that have been the envy of a generation of jazz pianists...
First Place (J. J. Johnson; Columbia LP). The current ruling jazz trombonist struts some of his limber-lined, impeccably phrased stuff on a fine solo album. The selections include revamped oldies such as It's Only a Paper Moon, a haunting blues number called Harvey's House, and a scattering of pleasant Johnson originals...
...group ended with a captivating performance of Monteverdi's Vago Augelletto. The work requires besides a chorus six vocal soloists, two solo violins and basso continuo (here executed by 'cello, bassoon and harpsichord). This piece of shifting moods makes use of countless different combinations of the solo, choral and instrumental forces...
...Manhattan's Central Park. Jimmy led the boys through a passel of his favorites: Pickin' 'Em Up and Layin' 'Em Down, 42nd Street, My Funny Valentine. The bass wove its low melodic line against the woodsy, paper-dry clarinet sound, the guitar attacked as solo rather than rhythm instrument. Sometimes Jimmy had five instruments (he played tenor and baritone sax and clarinet) shuttling in a complicated web of converging and diverging solo sounds. Of his own compositions, Gotta Dance proved to be a happy, hopping number marked by the husky noodling of Giuffre...