Word: combos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elliott Sextette (ABC-Paramount). A lightly swinging combo headed by versatile Virtuoso Elliott, heard here only on vibes and the mellophone. It is worth the price of admission ($3.98) to hear Jazz Me Blues bellowed on the mellophone, which is a country cousin of the French horn and sounds something like a trombone with a code in its doze...
...week, too. Rising young (25) Austrian Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955) arrived for a Carnegie Hall recital with recordings selected from a dozen of his Vienna broadcasts under his arm. Six of the programs were of Beethoven sonatas; the other six were of his own jazz combo playing his compositions and arrangements. U.S. jazz experts listened, found his tunes to be pretty as pops-fine fodder for jazz improvisations-and his arrangements forthright and thoroughly disciplined. They proclaimed Gulda's jazz some of the best they had ever heard. The upshot: Pianist Gulda was booked...
...capital, just off the coast of Venezuela. But Trinidadians may well be the world's most musical people. Out of prosaic newspaper headlines they created calypso songs, and out of such unmusical items as oil drums and automobile brake drums they created the world's newest musical combo, the steelband (pronounced steelbon in Trinidad). Both were invented with sure instinct for novelty and self-expression by Trinidad's Negro population...
...World War II left Benny-and the other big jazz bands-far behind. The standard unit became the combo (three to eight musicians) and the music they played took off into outer space of cold, interstellar atonalities. Benny Goodman spent more and more time at his place in Connecticut, listening to his classical records...
Roads were being widened and resurfaced, ancient potholes filled up. Grey top hats were on sale for the first time in a Lagos department store. In a city nightclub, a hot combo was rocking to the beat of a new boogie tune: Elizabeth R, Eight to the Bar, and at a local parking lot, a small, bald man, freshly arrived from London, was busily tuning up a gleaming Rolls-Royce, to put it in prime form for the Queen's ceremonial drive. Altogether, nearly $3,000,000 was being spent for Nigeria's first visit by reigning British...