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Margaret A. Gram '64 sings "A Christmas Prayer," a jazz number, and joins Kendra B. Stearns '64 in "I love you too, sweet earthbound teen lover," a combination answer-and-death song. President Jack M. Winter '62 solos in "The Great Namedropper," a baseball song. This Michael K. Frith '63...
Rights of Swing (Candid). More fuel for a familiar argument: Is it possible to "compose" jazz and keep it fresh? The answer here is yes. Composer-Saxophonist Phil Woods, building in lines both propulsive and direct, has fashioned a five-part work that is always coherent and brimful of relaxed...
"Bird" Is Free (Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker Records). Saxophonist Parker was recorded at a concert dance in 1950, and despite the background murmur, he comes through warm and clear. His eloquent solos-particularly in This Time the Dream's on Me and in his own Moose the Mooche-have...
The ensemble's cool jazz style is less weird, but technically just as adroit. With his left leg swinging, Pianist Eaton may toy with harmonies and tempi, bounce themes to the fluid clarinet, trade solos with the limpid trumpet. Underneath it all is a rock-solid bass. Last week...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle Toe.