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E.S.P. (Columbia). Miles Davis and his fine quintet in abstract musings of their own invention (Agitation by Davis, Iris by Tenor Saxman Wayne Shorter, Mood by Bassist Ronald Carter). Sometimes the drum, bass and piano drive the soloists, but mostly they provide only phantom rhythms under the fluid runs and fragmentary phrases of the trumpet and tenor sax. No one will be tempted to tap a foot or sing along, but few with any E.S.P. at all will stop listening...
PLAIN OLD BLUES (Emarcy). Art Hodes at the piano and Truck Parham on bass swing their way through a lexicon of the blues reminiscent of Chicago in the '30s (Washboard Bines, How Long, How Long Blues, The Chimes Blues, Snowy Morning Blues). All very backward-looking, comfortable and exceptionally cheery...
...first with the Charles Mingus group, I believe, that people began commenting on a drummer using counter-subjects while other instruments were playing their choruses. This was because Mingus carried the beat so strongly on the bass. But with the need for a beat gone, Milford Graves could improvise constantly, as he did so successfully in "Sonnet." At one point, where "Sonnet" became very contrapuntal, I was getting that same exciting feeling you sometimes get with Baroque music: feeling three voices going in different directions--hearing the independent movement of each--and hearing a good total sound simultaneously...
Orchestra and Chorus are outstanding and the soloists are good. They include Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Jerome Mines, who sings majestically in spite of a few uncertain slides into home bass. Klemperer's sober new recording is musically the peer of Sir Thomas Beecham's big bright version with its heady hallelujahs (RCA Victor), and of Sir Adrian Boult's, which stars Joan Sutherland and her exquisite embellishments (London...
...Hollywood. Alpert is of Jewish descent, his sidemen of Italian and Russian. Their Ameriachi is one part cool jazz, one part hot mariachi, with a dash of rock 'n' roll. Twin trumpets carry the melody, and trombone, drums, piano and two electric guitars add a heavy bass line and a chugging beat...