Word: sextets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights went down and four of Benny's jazz sextet came out. The couple in the balcony did not look relieved. Bass player Percy Heath started plucking his big fiddle. The audience grew quiet. The guitarist, Cal Collins, jazzed in and out of the bass-line. A few heads in the audience nodded. Then pianist John Bunch took it alone for a little while, his hands roaming the keyboard like dancing spiders. The audience listened. Bunch stopped and drummer Connie Kay toyed with the beat. A few heads started bobbing. Then Kay stopped and all four jumped in. Heath plucked...
Goodman himself seems to be deathless. He is 67 years old and will play at Symphony Hall in Boston tomorrow night at 8:30. Tickets are $6, $8, and $10 at the door. He will play with his jazz sextet, who will play without him for the first half of the concert. Benny comes in for the last hour or so. Mayor White has declared tomorrow Benny Goodman Day in Boston, and the old music master will get a key to the city in private ceremonies after the performance...
...opera had moved into a recitative section. Thus while Figaro was discovering that he was the long-lost son of two people he could live without, Solti was holding cold compresses to his head. Like the seasoned pros they are, the members of the orchestra began the subsequent sextet by themselves. His arms beating as he ascended into view, Solti returned to his place. His wound turned out to be minor, and was later patched with a small bandage. "Nothing like this has ever happened before," said Solti. Perhaps not in front of an audience, but Solti once stabbed...
...gratifying to see the Jazz Workshop is bringing in Jackie DeJohnette's group for a full week ending this Sunday. DeJohnette was Jackie McLean's greatest drummer in his sometime sextet, sometimes quintet combinations of the early 60s. He does more than just keep a beat. DeJohnette's group, directions, features John Abercrombie. Shows begin...
...weeks from next Wednesday, Yo Yo Ma will be sitting in Memorial Hall, writing an exam for Social Sciences 4, "Film and Anthropology," in the company of a few dozen of his classmates. On the other hand, last Sunday he was in Carnegie Hall, playing in a Brahms sextet before an audience of two thousand. Because Yo Yo already plays the cello better than almost anyone in the world, success is not going to bother him with struggling up through the ranks, trying out for free-lance jobs, or any of that. Martha Babcock '72 and Ronan Lefkowitz...