Vi ST YR JOACHIM E. BERENDT —and in spite, or because of, the way Down Home choir: Roy Gaines on ................60 (Gemían Jazz Critic, Author) she sings now! the last great Vanguard record by ................ 20 Perfection is heavenly; we are on Jimmy Rushing; Bert Keyes from Band—Count Basie, Duke Elling- .................. 10 ihe earth. Earth, in this case, means Brooklyn, a Buddy Johnson discov­ lon . • • Combo—Art Blakey’s Jazz ................ 10 LJ.S. I judge from Germany. How do ery, and Lennie Felix, a widely trav­ Messengers, Jimmy Giuffre 3. .................10 dare? eled Briton with a warmly inspira­ 1 rumpet — Miles Davis (Art tional touch ................ 10 Fanner, Lee Morgan) . Trombone ................ 10 DOM CERULLI Men like Lockjaw Davis, Curtis -J. J Johnson, Jimmy (.leveland, .................. 10 ( Associate Editor, Down Beat) Lowe, Havwood Henry, Skip Hall, Bob Brookmeyer (Aake Persson, and Earle Warren are not new on ................ 10 (.intis Fuller, Albert Mangelsdorff) Band—Johnny Richards .. Combo ................... 5 —Tony Scott quintet. the scene, but by my standards they . Alto Sax—Sonny Stitt, Lee Ko­ are deserving ot much more recog­ ................... 5 nitz (Jackie McLean, Buddy Col­ Trumpet — No choice (Art Far­ EW STIR mer) . Trombone—Bob Brook­ nition than they are currently get­ lette) . Tenoi Sax—Sonny Rol­ ting. lins (John Coltrane, Hank Mobley) meyer, Jimmy Cleveland (Jimmy ................. 25 Knepper) . Alto Sax—Lee Konitz My choice of Dickie Wells and . Baritone Sax-Pepper Adams Vic Dickenson in the New Star Male ................. 20 (Tony Scott) . Clarinet—Buddy (Gene Quill, Julian Adderley) . ................. 20 Tenor Sax—Coleman Hawkins, Ben Singer category may require some DeFranco, Jimmy Giuffre (Rolf explanation, although both are per­ ................. 10 Kuhn) . Piano—Erroll Garner, Webster (Johnny Griffin, Benny ................. 10 Golson) . Baritone Sax—Gerry sonable cats of engaging vocal abil­ Horace Silver (Bill Evans, Martial ity. ...................10 Solal) . Bass—Ray Blown, Oscar Mulligan (Tony Scott) . Clarinet ...................10 —Tony Scott (no choice) . Piano I here has of late been a regret­ Pettiford, Charlie Mingus (Pierre table tendency lor the less offensive ...................10 Mic helot) . Guitar—Tai Farlow —Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner ...................10 (Dick Kat/, Bill Evans) . Bass­ pop singers to be classed as jazz (Bill Harris) . Drums —Max singers. Ought we not be a little ................. 10 Roach (Ait Taylor) . Vibes—Milt Charlie Mingus (Wilbur W’are, ................... 10 Whitey Mitchell) . Guitar­ more discriminating? Blues singers Jackson (Wolfgang Schluter) . apart, the best vocal kicks in jazz ...................10 Male Singer — Joe Turner (Ray Chuck Wayne (John Pisano, Jim ...................10 have come from the musicians. Charles) . Female Singer—Billie Hall) . Drums—Chico Hamilton. ................5 Osie Johnson (Ed Thigpen, Jimmy Think a moment about the con­ Holiday (Rita Reys). tributions ol Jimmy Harrison, Fats ................. 5 There are three Men of the Year: Campbell) . Vibes—Terry Gibbs . 5 Waller, George Thomas, Don Red­ Marshall Brown (for his Newport (Teddy Charles) , . Male Singer t five full votes —Jimmy Rushing (David Allen) . man. Sv Oliver. Joe Thomas, Trum­ an individual international youth band), Miles my Young, Jack Teagarden, Lips Davis (for his Baudelaire-like mix­ Female Singer—Anita O’Day (Da­ lured a winner kota Staton, Irene Kral). Page, and Louis. Dickie and Vic are ture of sadness and beauty), Sonny somewhere in that tradition. Rollins (foi the way he goes new 1 wish there had been a category lor Gil Evans. Buddy Tate's seven-piece combo .LIETT paths with vitality); everybody else has been playing around New York seems to face an alternative: If you lor several years. W hen heard, it in­ IC Yorker) STANLEY DANCE are vital, you don’t go along new cluded the formidable talents of Pat (Reviewer. Jazz Journal, i . Combo paths; or if you go new paths, you Jenkins, Eli Robinson, Ben Richard­ England) [uintet, Ben are not vital. son, Sidik Hakim (formerly Argonne •by Hackett My choices for combos demon­ Band—Duke Ellington . Combo Thornton), Everett Barksdale, and . .. Trumpet strate the alternative: Art Blakey’s —Buddy Tate septet Fats Donaldson, as well as the lead­ t Berry, Doc Messengers one possibility, Jimmy Trumpet—Louis Armstrong (Lou er's tremendously exciting tenor. espie, Miles Giuffre’s 3 the other one. Jones) . Trombone—Vic Dicken­ It could certainly outswing any Aside from Brown, Miles, and choice) . son, Dickie Wells, Trummy Young other regulai group in the city, and Sonny, everything seems to be doubt­ (no choice) . Alto Sax—Johnny nson, Benny its book contains many wonderful Bob Brook- ful. Since Tony Scott plays baritone Hodges (Earle Warren) . Tenor arrangements by wonderful persons with a tenoi mouthpiece and a bass Sax—Coleman Hawkins, Buddy Tate, r) . Alto like Robinson, Hall, Wells, and Buck Id ton Jeffer- clarinet reed, I m not sure if he is Ben Webster (Lockjaw Davis) . Clayton. Tenor Sax— eligible in the baritone category. But Baritone Sax—Harry Carney (Cur­ I he six easiest c hoices to make are, I’m sure Pepper Adams uses a bari­ en Webster, tis Lowe, Haywood Henrv) . Clar­ ol course, Duke Ellington, Louis nny Rollins tone mouthpiece and a baritone reed inet-Barney Bigard, Buster Bailey, Armstrong, Johnny Hodges, Harry and everything baritone-like. Sari tone Sax Darnell Howard (Haywood Henry) Carnev, Earl Hines, and Lionel y Mulligan As usual for us Europeans, I like . Piano—Earl Hines (Beit Keyes, Hampton, all of whom continue to net—Edmond to draw your attention to some Euro­ Lennie Felix, Skip Hall) . Bass­ reign supreme in their different Jimmy Giuf- pean musicians: the Swedish trom­ Milt Hinton (Joe Benjamin) . spheres. Long may they do so! iano—Teddy bonist Aake Persson and the German Guitar—Freddie Green (Roy Gaines, Thelonious one, Albert Mangelsdorff; the French Dickey Thompson) . Drums— CARLOS De RADZITZKY . Bass­ piano player Martial Solal and his Jimmie Crawford (Herbie Lovelie) lie Mingus, compatriot, Pierre Mic helot, on bass; . Vibes — Lionel Hampton (no (Jazz Radio Producer, Editor, Ware) . the Dutch singer Rita Reys and choice) . Male Singer — Louis La Revue Den Duques, Belgium) (Jinn Hall) the German vibes player. Wolfgang Armstrong, |immy Rushing. Joe Band—Count Basie, Duke Elling­ nelly Manne, Schluter. Turner (Dickie Wells, Vic Dicken­ ton . Combo—Modern Jazz Quar­ (No choice) I still am fascinated by Bill Har­ son) . Female Singer—Ella Fitz­ tet, Miles Davis Quintet. i, Milt Jack- ris (by both ones, but in this con­ gerald (Carrie Smith). Trumpet — Dizzy Gillespie, Miles lale Singer— text I mean the guitar player). It Among the new voices that im­ Davis, Donald Byrd (Lee Morgan, shing, Louis seems so much when you can send pressed me during the last year were Art Farmer, Kenny Dorham) . garden (No your messages without amplifier, and Lou Jones and Dic ky Thompson on Trombone—J. J. Johnson, Jimmy B;er—Mahalia everybody receives them! Billie Holi­ a Cozy (.ole record date; Herbie (.leveland (Willie Dennis, Bennie day’s singing keeps being for me Lovelle with Sam Taylor’s group; Green) . Alto Sax—Sonny Stitt, the most moving jazz experience ever Carrie Smith, a soloist with the Phil Woods (Zoot Sims) . Tenor August 21, 1958 ■ 17.