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...Sometimes these hands seem so graceful I can see them signin' autographs." Reality and fantasy blend nicely in this graceful, never clumsy debut album. Phoebe's original lyrics are as plain as morning bread, but her alto voice is jazzy. Jazz Notables Teddy Wil son (piano) and Zoot Sims (saxophone) join the diversified goings...
...unaware that Mick was already changing his image. In London, he threw a Lucullan feast on his 30th birthday for some 200 friends, including Debbie Reynolds, Britt Eklund and Peter Townshend of The Who, and sported a new and different look: short back and sides hairdo and a zoot suit. Does this portend a new career? Journalist Tony Scaduto's recent biography, Mick Jagger: Everybody's Lucifer, implies this could be so. Mick is quoted as saying, "I'm thinking about entering politics, but I haven't got the right wife." Indeed, BiancA, partying...
...city since the Woodwarding heyday in 1968. From the look of the line outside the movie you'd think David Bowie was playing. It is an audience of dudes, every kind of dude come to panic in Detroit. You see sparkle shirts next to stretch pants, zoot suits and bodysuits, spangles and sequins and satins, conks and greaser crowns, bouffants and bubbles and blond-wigged blacks and silver-sprayed Afros, tranvestites and Amazons. The action is not in getting into the movie as much as it is in getting off on the movie together, in concert. And the getting...
...Second Coming has come and gone. Back in the Old West, Christ parachuted to earth. He was dressed in a zoot suit, called himself Jessy and said he was en route to Jerusalem "to be an actor-singer-dancer. It is written that the agent Morris awaits me." His father, an elderly party in clerical garb and a white beard, also walks the earth, meting out violent punishment in the best traditions of the Old Testament. The Holy Ghost, a fellow wearing a bed sheet, flaps after him, grousing "You'll never know what I could do 'cause...
Giving the cleaning ladies the night off, Radio City Music Hall opened its doors at midnight for a four-hour jam session that saw Ben Webster, Zoot Sims, and Milt Jackson tapping toes where the Rockettes usually toe-up to tap. Uptown at Yankee Stadium, the likes of Ray Charles, Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan made a far more winning team than the stadium's usual inhabitants...