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...master's degree in music education. When he first unlimbered on the jazz circuit in 1958, he was a timid conformist, but a nine-month tour with Charlie Mingus' combo changed that. Midway in a number, the burly, quick-tempered Mingus would peer fearsomely from behind his bass and roar, "Go on, go on, blow something!" Recalls Handy: "I was too scared not to play something startling...
...orchestra, under Fausto Cleva, played well; everything, from harp glissandos to threatening bass growls, was audible. Even the claque sounded good from the back of the house. (The choreography for the "Dance of the Hours" was not quite up to Folies-Bergere standards, but who had come to see pirouettes...
HAMPTON HAWES, HERE AND NOW (Contemporary). In this record, Hawes adds new harmonic colorings to his bright percussive style, most notably in Fly Me to the Moon and Chim Chim Cher-ee. Helping him along on bass is Chuck Israels, whose gracefully looping rhythms give another dimension to The Girl from Ipanema and What Kind of Fool...
HERBIE HANCOCK, MAIDEN VOYAGE (Blue Note). Hancock is-an inventive young (26) modernist best known for his work with Miles Davis. Here he sets out to fathom the mysteries of the sea. His crew of Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams, drums, Freddie Hubbard, trumpet, and George Coleman, tenor sax, pull together perfectly to express a variety of moods-from the quiet swirling sound of Little One to the growling agitation of Eye of the Hurricane. Survival of the Fittest features a Hancock solo that pits one hand against the other in a sort of riptide effect...
America's other Tchaikovsky prizewinners-Sopranos Jane Marsh, 24, and Veronica Tyler, 29, and Bass Simon Estes, 28-had already made impressive postcontest showings with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood last month. Now Kates and Dichter as well have added luster to their own bright promise...