Word: trumpeted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILES DAVIS: SORCERER (Columbia). Whether scaling the heights or sighing from the depths, Miles's slender, wavery trumpet tone never loses its quirky cool. Always listening intently to his direction are wizard apprentices, sorcerers in their own right. Tenorman Wayne Shorter composed four tunes on the album, notably the tense and shadowy Prince of Darkness. Drummer Tony Williams contributes a mysterious ballad as well as his inspired, erratic drum effects. Bassist Ron Carter lays the undertone for Pianist Herbie Hancock's inimitable brush strokes of color, while Miles quavers the quintessential, kaleidoscopic themes...
JACKIE McLEAN: NEW AND OLD GOSPEL (Blue Note). That hardy musical ghost, gospel, is summoned once again for this session. Its vibrations materialize most happily in a church-spirited composition by Ornette Coleman, who simply plays trumpet on this album. In Altoist McLean's four-part piece Lifeline, though, these vibrations become only the merest echo, as the group slides into the "new gospel" of freedom. Here McLean's quintet (Lamont Johnson on piano; Scott Holt, bass; Billy Higgins, drums) wheels uninhibitedly through the cycle of human experiences, expressing exultation with rollicking riffs, wonder with gentle breathings, anxiety...
...same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...
...revealed serious technical problems in handling the music. The Bach solo cantata was the closest to coloratura the Master ever came, and is a tough order for anyone to handle. Wednesday night Bach's elegant roulades were indistinct and slow; the tempo dragged at every soprano entrance. The accompanying trumpet, string quartet, and harpsichord, though. perfectly competent, was unconducted and therefore had major difficulties with ensemble...
...work of the late Boris Vian, an astonishing Parisian who played the trumpet, wrote science fiction, novels and poetry by turns, it was first produced in Paris not long before his death, at the age of 39, nine years ago, and was known here only by name until the Harvard Dramatic Club presented it in a surprisingly good production at the Loeb Drama Center, where it continues...