Word: thad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thad Jones and Mel Lewis: Potpourri (Philadelphia International Records; $6.98). Eighteen jazz all-stars make up one of the last of the big bands. Many jazz connoisseurs also consider it the best. In nine years of one-night stands since its founding by Trumpeter Jones and Drummer Lewis, J. & L. has perfected a loose, flexible sound. The title refers to the multiracial, three-generation profile of the personnel - Trombonist Cliff Heather is 70, Trumpeter Jon Faddis is 21 - as well as to the program...
...November, Bodron faced an attractive young Republican, Thad Cochran. A black minister ran as an independent and pulled about 10,000 normally Democratic votes. Bodron lost to Cochran by about...
...this band pay one another close attention. Their group is not just the only concert big band they get to play in these days, it is the only one they get to listen to regularly. As they blow, beat or belt their way into a complex piece like Thad's Tiptoe, which halfway on involves something very like a musical multiple-choice quiz between Drummer Mel and everybody else, the players follow each other's fun as avidly as the audience. Laughter, even whoops of joy fly out. Back at the rear wall, an extra-special solo flight...
When its engagement began on Feb. 7, 1966, the band served mainly as an escape from the endless round of TV and jingle jobs through which its individual members actually make a living. In the ensuing years, playing the Vanguard on Monday nights, the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis group has reached a level of perfection and invention now matched only by the Duke Ellington band...
Brassy Bursts. In the minds of many jazz fans, the big band epitomizes today's vogue for the nostalgia trip. Jones and Lewis, in fact, met at a "battle" of the big bands-Count Basie v. Stan Kenton-in a Detroit hotel 15 years ago. Thad was a trumpeter with Basie, Mel the drummer behind Kenton's brassy behemoth. They both might be forgiven any nostalgia they cared to indulge in. Neither of them cares to. They would no more ape Woody Herman or Tommy Dorsey than sit behind monogrammed music stands. Besides, yesterday's big-band...