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...Reader Gettler gave up too soon. Here is the list: 1) Falstaff; 2) Richard III; 3) the Shakespearean jester, e.g., Touchstone; 4) Ariel (whose hand, trumpet and feet stuck out behind the cover slash); 5) Caliban; 6) Hamlet (with Yorick); 7) King Lear; 8) & 9) Antony and Cleopatra; 10) & 11) Petruchio and the shrew he tamed, Katharina; 12) Ophelia; 13) & 14) Othello and his ill-fated wife, Desdemona; 15) & 16) Juliet and Romeo; 17) a gravedigger from Hamlet; 18) & 19) Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; 20), 21) & 22) the three witches from Macbeth, stirring their boiling cauldron; 23) & 24) Bottom...
...toted a sax up to the 22nd-story roof garden above Benny's Manhattan House apartment for the fulfillment of a jazzman's dream. With Bhumibol and Benny were Gene Krupa on the skins, Teddy Wilson on the piano, Urbie Green on the trombone, Jonah Jones on trumpet, Red Norvo on vibes. The King stood them toe-to-toe for two hours, paid his royal respects to The Sheik of Araby (in 17 eardrumming choruses), savored Honeysuckle Rose, swung low On the Sunny Side of the Street. Near session's end, Benny decorated him with...
...Distant Trumpet, Horgan...
...Distant Trumpet, Morgan...
What Makes Sense. Playing with Coleman, who uses a white plastic sax with a warmer tone than the conventional metal instrument, are Charlie Haden (bass), Edward Blackwell (drums) and Don Cherry (trumpet). They all seemed to be going their own ways. The direction of any tune might change from bar to bar, depending on which musicians happened to have "the dominant ear at that moment." The drummer repeatedly shifted his rhythm, forcing concessions from the other players. At best, the result evoked an abstract expressionist painting whose dots, slashes and blobs are miraculously knitted into a pattern...