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Another junior, Mike Tschudin, was ubiquitous: his five-man ensemble played three sets of his own compositions and he wrote the music for two of the Jazz Dance Workshop's four sequences. Tschudin showed himself to be a skillful, full-handed pianist, but his music lacked real emotional impact. His quintet played pleasant, solid jazz when its members felt themselves able to swing freely. But they couldn't stay together when they played from sheet music; the pieces of paper diverted their attention from each other...
Kroll, who opened a fabric shop on Mass. Ave. in late September, will devote all his profits to the establishment of a design workshop. The workshop, which will design industrial models "of everything that goes into the home," will provide "a creative atmosphere" in which former mental patients can be gainfully employed, Kroll said...
Since he opened the shop, Kroll has already made enough money to purchase a $700 loom, and he plans to kick off the workshop officially today with a sale of specially priced materials donated by mills from all over the country...
Half of the royalties the workshop receives for its industrial models will be donated to PBH's Wellmet Program, a project which attempts to reintegrate mental hospital discharges with society. In addition, people from the Wellmet group will be employed at the workshop...
...last week a packed audience at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop listened raptly as slim, meek Astrud Gilberto, 24, stood before a microphone and sang The Girl from Ipanema, in a voice so soft and introverted that it barely cut the smoke. Behind her, Stan Getz wove wispy filigrees on his tenor sax to produce the most infectious "new sound" around-the bossa nova nova...