Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creating Characters. Both painters arrived at film-fashioned realism by the circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until...
...even the sustained fortissimi or the close quarters. The blame goes to the electronic amplifiers. An old-fashioned oompah military band, playing a Sousa march in Central or Golden Gate Park, generated as much sound. But the sound was not amplified, and was dissipated in the open air. A trombonist sitting in front of a tuba player might be a bit deaf for an hour or so after a concert; then his hearing returned to normal. A microphone hooked up to a public-address system did not appreciably increase the hearing hazard. What did was multiple mikes and speakers...
...night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha Tilton. Goodman, now 58, fed them all a buffet supper, and then they sat down to blow Avalon, Sweet Lorraine, Stompin...
...conductor's arm chopped down -not to give the downbeat but to start his stop watch. Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence. Although the instruments were plugged into a bank of ten loudspeakers (with four technicians at the potentiometers, or volume controls), the audience strolled around the stage to pick up sounds from every angle. One player improvised his own percussion by borrowing a woman's slipper and rapping it on the platform. After four hours. Conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen finished Ensemble and, with many...
Defining Limits. The evening contained only two recognizable musical moments. At one point, the hornist inexplicably quoted a swatch of Tchaikov sky's Symphony No. 5, and the possibly unhinged trombonist retired to an adjoining terrace to toot 76 Trombones...