Thursday, September 12, 2013

From DownBeat Magazine ....


The small, gray bus slid quietly to a halt outside the Vieux-Colombier, and a handful of musical gypsies tumbled out. They stretched their limbs and surveyed the indifferent Parisian afternoon—Malachi Favors, serious, with heavy features; Rosco …  
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Lucky’s Back In Town
Published 7/4/1963
Eli (Lucky) Thompson, the veteran modern tenor saxophonist, has returned home after five years in Europe. Now he is 37, he is older, wiser; the European experience has provided him with a well-defined perspective of life and insight into himself. A g …  
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Marian McPartland threw back her head and laughed. “You have no idea how often I’ve been asked that,” she said. “And, actually, I don’t know how to answer it.”
The questions were: What are your comments on being a woman in a man’s world, the wo …  
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The periodic question of the wrath of a composer at some jazz arrangement of his tune has plagued the livelier side of the music business ever since Paul Whiteman.
It probably will never be completely settled as long as composers and music fans …  
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