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TonWtat, Dec IS. at U' Loeb tudtnt ent , l uaother of h uH In Jazz" n ert era , tribute Mit H..._, J.rry H.m. and Mr ohn h1 f nb th Juz-mania Jan F~ tvaJ TonJ ht, ,...,.. aacl the featured fu aon arbat • hUe Fr1da a...t.ea-J 1n theJaznn a m an all n t J&m ton aturda all the All tar perforn1 rth• an enorn1ou Jy talett1ed aJtot t I , the bk piani t com r nd u t r, , all ppear h a tet at tbe Viii Gate . D- n l:nrted Jazz Coalit e' en ofMoo

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Photo by Mitchell Se•del

Tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m., Highlights in Jazz honors saxophonist (left). He is shown here ·with his long-tin1e friend and n1usical acquaintance Zoot Sin1s, \Vho will also be in attendance. Cohn and Sims at the concert will be joined by other jazz veterans. As is custon1ary with Highlights in Jazz concerts, there will also be "surprise" guests. ~.:\1 CAlhn : storing up his solo for two hours Past unannounced guests have included Eubie Blake, Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie, and . The concert, as always, \vill be hosted by the infamous Jack Kleinsinger, who is known to local music critics for his mainstream jazz concerts and his lengthy in­ troductions. The pre entation will be co-produced by Kleinsinger and the NYU Program Board. • t aJilirht In u• it' anaual salute to muddeD on Thursday, December p.m. Thq gue t .of honor (whO' will also be ing) is tenor saxophonist Al Cohn. Cohn i known for his contribution to the big bf'd of , . Georaae Auld aad . During the 1950s he and Zoot Sin1s formed their own group and played in ntghtclubs and concert balls in the U.S .• Canada. South America COHN lalourwJ at New Yorlr and Europe. Their most recent record totether. on the So net label. is titled ''Motoring Aloag.'' Cohn ha written for television and Broadway. • Fellow musicians whO will be paying tribute to AI Cohn tbe night of the concert ,IIi include Zoot Sints (), Milt Hin­ ton. (bass). (piano), Jimmy Raney (guitar), Joe Wilder (trumpet), (baritone saxophone) and (drums). There will also be a surprise guest. The concert will take place at NYU Loeb Student Center (Eisner & Lubin Auditori­ um), 566 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square South. Tickets sell for 55.50: $4.50 for students; and SJ.OO for student balcony. Tickets can be obtained at the box office. For further inforntation call (212) 598-3757. by Ira Git/er

Another in the series of Jac~ Hinton and Alexander wasn't com­ hear him every }ear at Dick Gibson's Klein inger' H1gltllghts in Jazz pletely compatible but it got the job Colorado Jaz.z Party but he doesn't get bouQuet to the li~iOJ ~as the done. H'hat Is This Thing was followed jazz gi s in New Yor:k , onl) studio December JSth "Salute to AI Cohn.·' by a pirited Groovin , H1gh and then "ork. A lot of people at Lo~b were ertamt> one of the mu ician most the horns and Harris departed to be probably hearing him for the fu st time worth · of a eap·tippiilJ. Obv1ou Jy a replaced by another ex-Hermanne, and all were properly impres ed. lot of people agreed because the auitarast Jimmy Raney. He started off The second half of the concert auditorium at e~ York University• How A bout You on the other s1de of opened with Cohn's wife , Flo Cohn L~b Student Center '4as fiiJed to the stag~ from his bass and drum (professionallr known as Flo Handy), capacity• . partneh, but by the end of the number backed by Harris, Hinton and The form t or the .. ~alutes ., is a cast had mo\ ed in closer and, properly Alexander in I 'm Begmning to See thC'­ of top mu icians ·ho have been warmed up, finished with kind of a Light. Flo, who does most of her a ociated 'A ith the man-of·the hour free-form flourish. singing in Pocono f\.1ountains' mght during his career. As &ood as they Raney's long-lined brilliance came pots the e days, accompanyi ng her elf u u ll are, you are left wanting more through on Just Friends despite an on piano, was a standup inger th is of the main protagonist, especially inferior instrument ~ ith a staticky mght. She's definitely a jau singer ·hen much ttme b con umed by ound. (Hi ov.·n guitar had malfunc­ ~ ith her own approach to a lyric. with h t Klein inaer's announcements. tioned the pre"rious night after hts bent note! horn-like approach, and a Thj naae-houtng is taken for aranted arrival from Louisville, and he had to trong beat. She ~as a bit tentative at by the Htghltghrs in Jazz. reaulars who borrow one from an acquaintance.) f1rst on L ight but warmed a she"' ent. ccept h with an understanding shrua J tmmy is one of the true guitar artist . The follo~up was an extremely per­ and concentrate on the aood music 1t v.·ould have been nice to hear him in sonal treatment of the old standard, programmed by their host. tandem with Cohn on Tain't No Us~ Honey, sung with genuine feeling as The musical sah·o for Cohn wa no or a standard if they didn,t have time she beamed it at her man sitting front e ception. There should have been to run down one of At's oldies. row center. It was very touching. Too more of AI. He was in the consistently The next trouping included baritone bad AI d id not get a chance to ac­ fine form he has shown over the past sa."lophoni t Pepper Adams (on his compan)' her sometime during the e' eraI car since taking some time own now after many years of yeoman concert. from his t'fer busy writing schedule to ervice ~·i th the - The man of the hour finally reached concentrate mo~ on blowifll than he on:hestra) and the seldom-heard Joe the ~rage , o~ning with a number that had in the first half of the '70s. \\'ilder on trumpet with Harris, Hinton he has really stamped as hi own-­ The e,·eninJ opened with a jam on and Harris' usual side-kick, drummer A m~rica th~ Beautiful, bossa novaed H'hat Is Thu Tiring Cilll~d Love? with . Wilder's precise · to fine turn. Then he and Zoot - a ; Marky ~tarkowiu on trum­ plunaer work sparkled on In D tandem as right as salami and eggs - pet; Barry Harris. piano; . MellotoM and Pepper sounded good heated up Fast, a Cohn line on Exactly bas ; and Mousey Alexander, drums. . . . what you could hear of him. He Like You and cl~ed ~ i th J\fornirrg It was the kind of ~iq-bop fusion ·was too far from the mike and that Fun, the blues line they wrote and one heard at the se sions of the mid· took away from the impact of his bi&. always use as a sign-off. Sims did his J9-405 brouaht up to the ·10s. autsy sound. Williams got in some nice most inspired playing at the concert in • Sims and Markowitz's connection solo licks during the chase choruses this set with his long-time buddy. • ith Cohn aoes back to the Woody •ith the horns at the tail-end of the Wilder. on fluegel, Markowitz and Herman band of the late '40s. Sims· tune. Raney then joined the tenor rwvosome desened fa•ne is worldwide; Marky One of the con~rfs outstanding for J.J. Johnson's blues Jf/n Dot. The has been 1 lifelona sideman whose solo sqmmts was the ballad medley. crowd wanted an encore and P~rdido abilities have been illuminated recently Harris, marvelous throuahout, played was the answer with excellent fluegel in some recordinas with various aroups a Body ond Soul that blended the by Wilder and some more strong for Harry Lim's famous Door label. sona's inherent. everareen charac­ Cohn. For the out chorus th~· used He has the' powerful chops of 1 &ead teristics with his o"~ acute sense of Benny Harris' line on P~rdio Wt~hoo. • man and an play up hiJh with power. harmony and dynamics. Considering an the elements at the He Obviously likes Roy Eldridae and After Adams moved My /d~ol producer•s disposal, it could have been abo shows traces of the late Sonny throuah the convolutions of hi! brain a better cotlcert. But this is not to say lka tdiR, his old Herman section .. mate and the tubin& of his hom, Wilder did that in the main, it was not enjoyable­ who also chaa Roy. a lovely T1t11t's All, with Harmon more of Cohn, however, would have The rhythm section of Harris, mutt, that speUbound the audience. I made it more so.