Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style shines through almost every bar of such half-roasted chestnuts as Never on Sunday and I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Oldtime Ellington Saxpots Jimmy Hamilton (tenor), Johnny Hodges (alto) and Harry Carney (baritone) add to the luster. Standouts are Russell Procope's low-register clarinet solo in More and Cootie Williams' soaring trumpet work on Fly Me to the Moon. And binding it all together is the deft piano scrimshaw of Ellington himself...
CHARLIE MINGUS: TONIGHT AT NOON (Atlantic) is the sort of stuff that Ellington should be doing: original jazz works of concert length and worth. Bassist-Pianist Mingus' debt to Ellington is most apparent in Invisible Lady where both mood and the stylish trombone solo of Jimmie Knepper are evocative of the Duke at his best. Peggy's Blue Skylight features Mingus on piano and a haunting tenor sax solo by Booker Ervin...
...cigar box encrusted with emeralds (he does not smoke), and a Uruguayan whip appropriately inscribed, "Strike hard against the enemies of France." The return received dutiful top coverage by the state-owned television network, although the French had long since become bored with the general's marathon Latin solo. By now they were far more preoccupied with the Chinese bomb and the change in the Kremlin's management. In the dailies, the news of De Gaulle's return was even being crowded by Labor's victory in Britain...
Modern Wealth. But the cello did not really establish itself as a solo instrument until Pablo Casals developed its rich potentialities in the early years of this century. As a result, there is a dearth of music written for the cello by the great classical and romantic composers. Starker, a professor of music at Indiana University since 1958, takes heart from the wealth of cello compositions being turned out by modern composers. But he admits that the instrument's sober reputation might hamper its achieving the popularity of its high-strung relative, the violin...
...Yankees took three runs off the St. Louis lead when Mickey Mantle homered with two on in the sixth. But an inning later, Boyer's solo homer made...