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Seven Steps to Heaven (Miles Davis; Columbia) has an ominous ring to it, but the trumpet sounds reassuringly earthy and much better behaved than it has in its owner's recent past. Especially memorable: Basin Street Blues, a poignant narrative of lasting sorrow in Davis' well-known brooding approach...
Reunion (Benny Golson; Jazzland). A leading saxophonsit in all-star company: Kenny Dorham, trumpet; J. J. Johnson, trombone; Wynton Kelly, piano; Paul Chambers, bass; Max Roach, drums...
...jazz orchestra; trumpet solo...
Only the gloomiest philistine would question the spirit of the State Department's cultural exchange program-its value is eloquently stated in pictures of Leonard Bernstein drawing admiring crowds in Moscow and Louis Armstrong flashing teeth and trumpet for fascinated Africans. Yet last year the program was suspended for a thorough reappraisal, and after six months of hearings, it was clear that the program's practices had not always lived up to its promises. Last week, with a new and far better charter, the "reconstituted" program was under way again as the first of 14 music and dance...
Henry Cowell: Piano Music (Folkways). The dean of the enfants terribles of U.S. music plays and talks about the pieces that made such a ruckus in the 1920s. His 20 piano pieces (including Tides of Manaunaun and Trumpet of Angus Og) are full of rumbling dissonant tone clusters, reinforced by piano strings rubbed, strummed and plucked. The pieces sound prophetic now, and not nearly so wild...