Word: jazzmen
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...back on the U.S. jazz scene, cured of TB and fat as a Burgermeister. The homecoming was staged at Birdland, New York's famed jazz temple, which after a two-month fling at booking rock-'n'-rollers (TIME, May 8) has returned to hosting modern jazzmen. The metamorphosis was complete when Powell forcefully struck the first chords of The Best Thing for You Is Me. His attack was robust and sure, erupting in a series of crashing, dissonant chords, then retreating in flights of delicate melodic figures. His forehead awash with perspiration, head bobbing to the driving...
...then blasted back to reality (of sorts) by the big noise of Count Basie and his band. The Festival is a real tour de force of the jazz world, and while it can never achieve the warm, intimate atmosphere of a small night club, it presents a survey of jazzmen and their styles unmatched anywhere...
...Jazzmen have done little to reverse these unhappy trends. Many musicians seem to feel that malaise in the audience proves the merit of the music; when the squares start enjoying themselves, something has gone wrong. But the shrinking of the jazz scene has already badly damaged the atmosphere for making music. There is so little sense of com munity among the 1,000 or so jazzmen in New York that a genuine after-hours jam session is as rare and astonishing as a triple play. And now, with Birdland gone, where's home...
...compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird, if not downright wicked, may seem something of a puzzle. But to jazzmen touring Europe, it is one more proof that the limits of the art at home are more sociological than esthetic...
...rides, rooms to compose and play in and, in 1957, help in getting back the vital cabaret card. The baroness, along with Monk's gentle manager, a Queens high school teacher named Harry Colomby, collected medical evidence that Monk was not a junkie, along with character references by jazzmen and musical scholars. The cops gave in, and for the first time in years Monk began playing regularly in New York. The music he made at the Five Spot with Tenorman John Coltrane was the talk of jazz...