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...level. He was part of the heyday of the big bands of Herb Pomeroy and Maynard Ferguson (this was Maynard's hot '50s group, not the bubblegum combo he leads today.) Byard left the Ferguson band to spend five years working in an entirely different context--the celebrated Jazz Workshop led by bassist Charles Mingus. After leaving Mingus. Byard spent several years working as a solo pianist and, significantly, filling in on piano for the Ellington band when the Duke's failing health occasionally kept him from performing...
...National fare tended to degenerate. "At a close look," television critic and authority Les Brown has written, nationally-created programs were "marked by the intellectual prudence, the social cautions, and the feigned creative vitality that were hallmarks of commercial television in America." Successful program workshops--such as the Children's Television Workshop, responsible for both "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company"--have supplied high-quality programs which fill a vital educational role. Disbursing funds through a central bureau might reduce support for such groups. It would no doubt, foster competition among local and national sources. What the commission labels...
...conference might have worked as a giant workshop. Just the exchange of information on what different schools offered in the way of curricula, student services, amount of student self-government, would have made it all worthwhile. The individual committees--on issues ranging from academics to student life to the role of the university in social and political affairs--could have pooled information, come up with a comparative report, offered some suggestions. But somewhere along the line, many committees got lost in the effort to come up with resolutions (calling for divestiture of investments in South Africa, among other things...
...Mingus's more alarming habits during the Jazz Workshop days was to stop his band in the middle of a performance in order to correct a mistake, rehearse a phrase, or simply berate his musicians. This probably accounted for much of his reputation as a fiery madman, but it made perfect sense to a man who saw jazz as a creative process rather than a finished product. Me Myself An Eye is hardly a climax to Mingus's long and valuable career, but, appropriately, it is ambitious enough to leave much work to be done. They say that Mingus died...
...American Plays. Clearly, the seedling has become a sapling. It can be as much cram course as festival. This year, thanks to the prodigious efforts of the theater's staff and the resident actors, one could attend, within the space of two days, six plays and three workshop productions. Playwrights, like Thoroughbreds, are notoriously unpredictable. The best one can do is to spot a "natural...