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Kirk, now just over 30, has spent much of his life pursuing a kind of mys tical lost chord. His quest began at 19, in his native Columbus, Ohio, where he literally dreamed of playing two horns at the same time and was entranced by what he heard in his mind's ear. After an antique dealer turned up the manzello, which approximates the soprano sax, and the stritch, which is close to an alto sax, Kirk began practicing what he had dreamed. Since then he has blown his horns all over Europe...
Songs at Sunset (Virgil Fox; Capitol) features a great virtuoso and a great instrument (the 10,000-pipe organ at Manhattan's Riverside Church) pitted against the banalities of such music as Ich Liebe Dich and The Lost Chord...
...that art must also deal with filth, poverty and disease. The Mellon collection gives a fresh view of a time of stunning versatility and charm. To the English, art was a craft to be perfected with loving care, and the grace note was often as important as the thundering chord. Yet, when no longer seen through the haze of Victorian valentines that followed it, the age is shown as robust and meaty, not a time of pallid sentiment but of potency and health...
...Jimmy Guiffre and others have abandoned it to hunt down a more satisfying freedom. Coleman and Guiffre both now play atonal jazz, and Miles Davis defected with his discovery of the "interlude," a four-or eight-bar figure laced into a song between phrases. Davis sometimes plays one dominant chord throughout a 16-bar interlude, making only rhythmic variations. Elvin Jones, the most richly inventive of the modern drummers, plays highly abstract polyrhythms that leave the old eight-to-the-bar style of jazz drumming far behind...
Last week Gus was singing downtown again, this time in a recording studio. In his rich and resonant voice, he sang blues to his own full-chord banjo accompaniment while a friend kept time on the washboard and somebody else played the musical jug. Gus led the group through the old tunes-Long John Booker, The Chicken, Old Blue, and his own Walk Right...