Word: tenoritis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eddle "Lockjaw" Davis. Davis was born to play the tenor sax, it seems. Eight months after he bought his first horn, he was playing in Monroe's Uptown House in Hariem where the greatest jazz musicians of the time would match one another in all-night "cutting" sessions. Davis withdrew from the music scene in the early sixties, but he came back after a year to become a soloist and road manager for the Count Basic Band. Now on his own, he puts down a blues-based, funky sound that has charged listeners for three decades. At Sandy's Jazz...
...Tenor Dyer-Bennet has long ranked as one of America's premier balladeers...
Finally the Jazz Workshop has seen fit to bring in somebody who at least at one time had a lot of talent. Pharaohs Sanders was John Coitrane's heir apparent as greatest tenor man after the master's death in the mid-sixties. Sanders was riding high for a couple of years, and deservedly so--few could do as much as he could with the instrument, especially in the upper registers...
Among several casts, the singing of Bari tone Mazurok (Onegin) and Tenor Vla dimir Atlantov (Lensky) is solidly sono rous, and as Tatiana, Tamara Milashki-na sings with a full lyric voice that is gratifyingly free of the shrill vibrato heard from so many Russian sopranos...
After one and one-half hours of protests, Mace Wenniger, director of development and planning for the BRA, dismissed the gathering because, he said. "The tenor of the meeting was one where further constructive comments and questions are not forthcoming...