RECORD NOTES Museums and Looking at Other Paint- Ings? What's Wrong with Looking?" a HISTORY of JAZZ: the NEW YORK Now That Is Clearly in the Right SCENE
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"If you owned the Mona Lisa would you stop going to art galleries and RECORD NOTES museums and looking at other paint- ings? What's wrong with looking?" A HISTORY OF JAZZ: THE NEW YORK Now that is clearly in the right SCENE. Fletcher Henderson, Duke direction, although purists might Ellington, Dizzy GiMespie. and others. [Folkways RBF'RF-3. S5.95.) find the analogy questionable. In I he first place, Dr. Brothers has not As an aural companion to a forth- seen the writer of the letter, who coming Doubleday book with the lor all we know might look like same title, co-author Samuel Char- Carry Nation. Ever, if she looks like ters has judiciously selec led lourteen Mona Lisa, she might not be any recordings that illustrate the diversi- more forthcoming with her favors fied extent of ja// activity in New than that lady with her smile. May- York lrom 1911 to the beginnings of be her husband is wall-eyed. Maybe modern ja// in (he mid-1910's. 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ZONE. .STATE. • Check Enclosed (save postage & handling) • Bill Me Later (postage & handling extra) February 15, 1962 PRODUCED 2004 BY UNZ.ORG45 ELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED tions of Broadway scores. Covetous scope of the early jazz bands' com- recording directors, mindful of the munal functions. In an era of aggres- Important startling sales of Shelly Manne's My sive electric guitars, it is a delight to historical perspectives Fair Lady album, have tried to al- hear the crystalline, unamplified in Oxford's paperbound chemize anything on the boards, no playing of Emanuel Sayles, but the matter how flimsy. Nearly all the core of the album is the liquid ease results have done no credit to the and mellow resourcefulness of Mr. musicians involved and have simply Cottrell. The clarinetist, incidental- Books emphasized the generally base condi- ly, is also president of New Orleans tion of American musical comedy. Local 496, and thereby exemplifies A vivid and witty exception is this yet another fading tradition—a un- extensive reworking of Frank Loes- ion official who is still a master ARNOLD J. ser's rather ordinary songs by Gary craftsman. TOYNBEE'S McFarland, a young arranger whose A Study of History growing status in jazz is indicated by TTERE'S JAKI. Jaki Byard with Roy Haynes his originals in the past year for the -*• •*• and Ron Carter. (Prestige/New Jazz The first three volumes of Toyn- 8256, $4.98.) bee's monumental work have \fodern Jazz Quartet, Johnny Hod- just been published in Galaxy ges, and Gerry Mulligan. McFar- Despite the relentless quantity of Books. Mr. Toynbee has written a new preface to introduce these land's achievement is due partly new jazz releases, there are still paperback editions, but they are to the quality of musicians he unique performers who somehow es- otherwise identical to the hard- has assembled and also to his having cape documentation. Jaki Byard, cover volumes, rewritten this music with specific so- nearly forty, has long had a nucleus I: Introduction; The Geneses of Civilizations, Part One. loists in mind. He has taken full ad- of admirers among musicians as a (GB 74) $2.45 vantage, for example, of the sardonic pianist and composer, but this is his II: The Geneses of Civilizations, bent of trombonist Bob Brookmeyer, first album as a leader. Byard, cur- Part Two. (GB 75) $2.35 the pungent ebullience of trumpeter rently hidden in the foundry of III: The Growths of Civiliza- Clark Terry, and the fierce lyricism the Maynard Ferguson band, re- tions. (GB 76) $2.75 of altoist Phil Woods. The band as veals on his own a vigorous two- a whole, moreover, stimulated by handed orchestral piano technique The Jefferson Image in contrast with the single-line pre- in the American Mind Mie freshness of McFarland's imag- ination, swings with a zest and spon- occupation of most modern pianists.