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On Friday afternoon the Festival presented an interesting program of "New Faces in Jazz." One of the faces was not so new--that of Howard McGhee, who was an important bop trumpeter in the late forties and has returned from the living death of narcotics to resume his place in...
Rollins, a tenor saxophonist who came out of a self-imposed retirement a few years ago with a whole new set of ideas, is one of the most inventive and original musicians in jazz. His cleanly phrased solos are tightly conceived, angular little tone poems. Though he takes great liberties...
The soloists carried off the few solos in the oratorio excellently. The women, Junetta Jones and Janet Winburn, sopranos, and Betty Lou Austin, alto, had strong, vibrant voices. The men, all from the Glee Club, equalled them: Robert McKelvey, Clayne Robison, basses, made "The Lord is a Man of War...
The inspiration for The Tokyo Blues was the quintet's recent tour of Japan. All the number have a vaguely Japanese air about them, but essentially they are down-to-earth American. Silver's percussive, exciting piano is accented by the tight playing of the group and written bridges between...
For the 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...