Word: vibraphonist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOBBY HUTCHERSON: STICKUP! (Blue Note). West Coast Vibraphonist Hutcherson gets right in the swing with a tasteful crowd of young modernists. Featuring the flexible tenor inventions of Joe Henderson and the thoughtful suspensions of Pianist McCoy Tyner, the quintet favors an ambiance of melodic continuity set to disciplined rhythmics. The finest chapter of their musical book is in Verse, a rubato theme that moves into a flowing waltz tempo. Edging into the avant-garde on 8-4 Beat and Black Circle, the instrumentalists whirl gracefully around some unexpected chords. On the quiet ballad Summer Nights, vibes and piano trace shimmering...
...shouted Louis Armstrong to King George V during a command performance in 1932. Satchmo has since learned a little more about protocol, and his ten-minute audience with Pope Paul VI last week-the third Pope to receive him-was properly decorous. His Holiness presented Louis and Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton with medals. The jazzmen responded with a folio of Michelangelo drawings and a couple of autographed recordings-which ought to enliven the Vatican's record library...
...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' at the Savoy. As they used to say back then-swingin...
Married. Mia Kim, 25, youngest of the three Korean-born Kim sisters, currently giving an Oriental touch to U.S. song-and-dance on the nightclub circuit; and Tommy Vig, 27, jazz vibraphonist; in a Jewish ceremony in Las Vegas...
...SONIDO NUEVO (Verve) is not a new sound at all but old-fashioned Latin dance music played by Vibraphonist Cal Tjader (Soul Sauce), along with half a dozen softspoken, hypnotic percussionists and a trio of growling, pulsating trombonists. What lifts the album to the top groove is the piano of Eddie Palmieri, whose syncopated rhythmic sallies are a quiet contrast to Tjader's smoothly bubbling vibes...