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Gerry Mulligan, at the Jazz Workshop through Sunday, is an exuberant baritone saxophonist who came up through the big-band establishment and is now ever-so-slightly progressive. He usually plays with a piano-bass-drums quartet, and he names his songs after esoteric novels sometimes. You should probably also be warned that Mulligan is a perennial member of the Playboy all-star jazz band...
...Bluegrass Boys are picking Tuesday night at Passims. They begin at 8:30 and for two dollars, it seems you can stay for both sets. They feature a guitar, mandolin, banjo and stand-up bass, though no fiddle...
With five specimens of Bufo marinus still at large in the Northern Territory, the toad posses are counting on Bufo's well-known amorous proclivities to do him in. A local radio station will broadcast a recording of the male Bufo marinus' bass mating call in a last drainage-ditch attempt to lure lovesick and fecund female toads...
Conductor Bernardi has a discreet, controlled way with Mozart that was especially beneficial to some of his younger singers-notably Dutch-born Sonja Foot as Constanze and Montreal's Anna Chornodolska as the maid Blonde. Bass Joseph Rouleau, a regular at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, was lecher-perfect as the Pasha's harem keeper, Osmin. The star of the evening, though, was the five-year-old National Arts Centre Orchestra, a chamber-sized ensemble of 46 that Bernardi conducts in concert during the winter...
...virtuosity that sometimes disfigured his playing in the past. But the quicksilver runs and keyboard rampages that earned him the ironic nickname "Slow-hand" are still there. Sometimes Clapton turned his back to the audience to listen in turn to each musician in his excellent group-Carl Radle on bass, Dick Sims at the keyboards, Drummer Jamie Oldaker, Guitarist George Terry and Singer Yvonne Elliman...