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...Bach!" he exclaimed to a reporter for Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. "Listen to this." And the room, wrote the reporter, "was filled with liquid sound, mellow, golden," as Kapell turned to his keyboard. But Kapell had his fill of Sydney critics; it was goodbye forever. "I shall never return," he said...
...trio toss their sizzling ideas back & forth on a raised platform in the center of a big oval bar. Thirty-five-year-old Marian, long, lean and suntanned, sits at the baby grand with an inward look in her eyes as her fingers ripple easily over the keyboard. Behind her are her solid sidemen, Bass Fiddler Bob Carter and Drummer Joe Morello, flicking out accompaniments. The result is some of the cleanest, most inventive "progressive" jazz to be heard anywhere...
...only played their stories differently, but had more time and manpower to concentrate on their own state and local news. Many papers that buy TTS from the wire services also now use their own TTS machine to set local copy. Some even hire typists to operate the typewriter-keyboard punching machines at half the salary Linotype or Intertype compositors get, use one compositor to supervise as many as five tape-fed typesetting machines. The Miami Herald uses its own TTS circuits to cover local stories, e.g., the Herald punches tape in the press box at the Orange Bowl Stadium, feeds...
Moonlight Playing Time (Frankie Froba; Decca LP). Oldtime Jazz Pianist Froba has an easygoing keyboard approach. His selections-Moonglow, How High the Moon, Stardust on the Moon, Moonlight on the Ganges, Moonlight Saving Time, It's Only a Paper Moon, Moon Over Miami and Blue Moon-should just about exhaust the subject...
...simple-and as wildly and lavishly dressed-as a small boy's own imagination. The boy of the story hates piano lessons but is kept at his practicing by his well-meaning mother and his music teacher, an evil, oily character named Dr. Terwilliker. Falling asleep at the keyboard, the boy is transported in a Technicolored dream to a fantastic castle in which Dr. Terwilliker keeps a mile-long two-decker piano. At this preposterous musical instrument the teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been dragged from their ballplaying...