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...Transition. Mary Lou led her two accompanists through the basic jazz vocabulary like a teacher running a spelling bee; posing questions in rhythm and harmony, she would close her eyes to listen for the answers on bass and drums. Often she seemed concerned with cliches. But somehow, when her fingers sounded the familiar oo-bla-dee and ba-ree-bop, the old phrases rang like new coinage. Which was only right, since Mary Lou minted them first. In the old days when she played "zombie music" and early bop, her style was constantly in transition, constantly a skip ahead...
...speaker (Bernstein's wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp. Charles Munch, God bless him, conducted...
David Amram has composed some most helpful snatches of music for woodwind and plucked double-bass; and the lighting and costumes cannot be faulted...
Their bow tips rise and fall over their nine violins with the discipline of smoothly moving piston rods. Be neath the ping of a pizzicato the big-bellied strings-three violas, three cellos and a bass-growl like well-tuned sports cars. The horns sing out on the curves as the harpsichord taps its deli cate echo in the background...
BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums...