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...A.I.P. trumpet will thus be an uncertain one this fall-and probably in 1980 as well. The party drew only 1.4% of the vote in 1972 with former California Republican Congressman John Schmitz, a John Bircher, as its presidential candidate. It hopes to be on at least 30 state ballots this year. With its rigid platform and small following, however, it is hard to imagine the A.I.P. growing very fast, or very large...
...music of the Trammps is as snazzily tailored. The intense pulsating play of the drums lights the choreographic fire. The distinctive sound of the group is supplied by its jazzy, hard-chugging trumpet and saxophone, soaring guitar solos and sweet, soulful male vocals. "If we can't get you on your feet, we give up," says Singer-Drummer Earl Young, 37, leader and founder of the group. Such is the popularity of the Trammps that they now perform 340 gigs a year. With added income from their hit records-their Atlantic album Where the Happy People...
JAZZ. Mondays, at Michael's Pub (211 E. 55th St.), a group called the New Orleans Funeral and Ragtime Orchestra cuts loose, featuring, on clarinet, a sweetly swinging, nonjoking Woody Allen. Freddie Hubbard plays some hard-driving trumpet at the Schaefer Festival in Central Park on July 14. Buddy Rich may be caught at Storyville (41 E. 58th St.). Uptown, at the Carlyle Hotel (Madison Ave. and 76th St.), Bobby Short wraps standards and show tunes in well-cut velvet, and downtown, in the Village, the Charles Mingus group explores the furthest perimeters of jazz...
...nation's 200th birthday, it behooves us to do more than blow a trumpet and beat a drum. We should use the occasion to take stock of what is wrong with this country as well as what is right. Miller's play can help us do this. As the AST's director, Michael Kahn, said in an interview a few weeks ago, "I wanted to do The Crucible for our Bicentennial year. I think it's a terrific play, both hopeful for and critical of America...
...quarter of, Frederick the Great still hadn't made an appearance. That was enough for President Bok. He exited quietly, but with a look that would melt a complete collection of the trumpet king's greatest hits...