Word: octet
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Both concerts are in Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. and are open to the public without charge. At an earlier concert this week, the Varity Hartounian Jazz Octet performed before a capacity crowd...
...Varty Haroutinian Jazz Workshop octet, featuring trumpeter Herb Pomeroy, will perform this Monday evening at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public...
...Norman J. O'Connor, C.S.P., will act as commentator for the group, whose selections will include "The Thrill Is Gone," "Moanin'," "Azure," "That Old Feeling," "Rib Room," "Three Part Suite for Octet," "Rock Bottom," "Confirmation," "Cubano Chant," "Ambrosia," "Visa," "4:00 A.M.," and "Night Float...
That is how it went all during the four-month, ANTA-sponsored African tour of Herbie Mann's Jazz Octet. From Liberia to Uganda to his stop last week in the Sudan. Flutist Mann and his men played to a steady succession of sold-out houses, jammed with both European jazz enthusiasts and native tribesmen who recognize in Mann's percussive style the distant echoes of their own primitive jungle beat. To make the similarities more apparent, Mann incorporated a raft of native instruments into his group. And the octet learned from the natives as it went along...
...session with Haile Selassie's Imperial Guard Band, the octet brought down the house playing I Can't Do It and You Pretty Baby. Mann himself so delighted the King of Buganda's royal flutist in a joint jam session that he received a flute as a prize. Many a fan asked: "Where did you learn our rhythms...