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...ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric guitar, bass and drums came down hard on each syllable. Six extra loudspeakers hyped up the rainbarrel acoustics of the Dallas hall known as the Sportatorium, boosted the big noise to the threshold of pain. The kids spilled out into the aisles to rock and roll, but were herded back to their seats...
Chico Hamilton Quintet (Pacific Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...
Most of them are long, narrow, murky and crowded beyond what the fire laws allow. They charge no cover, and on their postage-stamp bandstands they usually offer pianists and trios (piano, bass, drums). Some really are for listening to music, some merely places to be dimly seen while the music is being played. All of them draw an audience of far more recent converts than the more venerable music spots-Nick's, Eddie Condon's, Birdland. Jimmy Ryan...
...some neighborhood barstool habitues. Coleman. a 27-year-old former child prodigy from The Bronx, decided to launch the room chiefly because he lived up the street, wanted a nearby showcase for his piano, and was tired of working for other people. He signed up a drummer and a bass player, opened seven months ago. He plays when the urge hits him or when the unadorned, beige-upholstered room is comfortably filled. A pianist of infinitely varied beat and volume, he is as effective on lacy, lilting numbers like My One and Only Love as he is on a stomping...
...deep-dish Southern accent and soft, self-deprecatory ways into hard money. Says his manager: "He appeals to old people with his hymns and spiritual songs. He has a tremendous appeal to little youngsters because of the name Tennessee Ernie. He is handsome enough and his low, masculine bass voice gives him sex appeal to women, but he is not good-looking enough for men to resent. Ernie himself is right from the workingman. They love and understand him. Let's face it, he's got mass appeal." Ford works an eleven-hour work day on his five...