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One such is the latest album by the Jazz Crusaders, Lookin' Ahead (Pacific Jazz PJ-43). The Jazz Crusaders are four young men who grew up together in the rock 'n' roll atmosphere of Houston, Texas. Their music is definitely in the bluesy, "funky" tradition which dominates jazz today, but...
Yolande Bevan is a funny name for a jazz singer; but then, most jazz singers are not, like Miss Bevan, from Ceylon. Almost by accident, she met up with Dave Lambert and Jon Hendricks and is now the third member of what used to be the Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross...
When he arrived in Boston for a three week engagement at the Cafe Yana, he was excited about a new approach to his blues guitar solos. Instead of conceiving a melodic line as a unit, he now lets each individual note lead him to an unrehearsed next note. This, he...
The Tokyo Blues (The Horace Silver Quintet; Blue Note) is a fascinating marriage of Latin rhythms to Oriental melodies, presided over by the lingering blues sound of Silver's piano. Gene Taylor's bass solos are the best expression of this trans-Pacific bossa nova, and Junior Cook...
The orchestra sawed through three Lewis compositions and one by J. J. Johnson, producing milky overstatements of nice little ideas. Solos by Saxophonist Phil Woods and Vibraharpist Milt Jackson nimbly demonstrated that what would have been fragile, intricate music for a quartet had been made fragmentary, timid music for an...