better Ms. Bley has band was even bette ^ developed an d Y^^n m her Carter. hear were so, 1 m vibes mui ■ for those of us L is necessary J business of I connected dic pugrimmages music to make per^ P state of o/ the art. F°r re“ ■ and perhaps geoeraphy. ec0"°Zentifled factor other less ^.ly capiul of New York 15 J^ndtoJheextent that yorth America, and to J .nfluences the American emp^theentire events in other c ’ modern art, world. wholes y<>" literature, must , probably aesthetic po^J better in the Big find it bigg^ an“ , Apple than anyw . rvers have OtdeLre^ commented, here is h peace. W York though no^ Walking the d > Village, streets of Manhattan 5 nthgmesh one can sense that e s windows, ^ sounds blos«hh radios. Lsing oars and P'^fonk-lhe First an d foremost, there is^ urban street0rn to regard as coming Portlanders seem ^hjch B as from an alien plone -b^ f much a port of^ the environment f pulse> othe pigeons. To in gae, rocK ^panicu^^io “7^sp«"-rX I Wmp'S"" coniine off Of early J insistent funky Latin ^the art of sound ofthe streets^ a fact connected m „n.irist” critics have many so-called ? tv/0 weeks in yet to iearly August,. York in late y different acts, caught f^lel^ntbacktohear including a couple foT ^uy more than he was sick who told all h* f he left., fnot t0 of music bej _ oaSSed up during mention the free classical mystay-n f^J park> numerous concerts m Cen andthe m^a“^ usual owv *• club scene.) to sUm up my l wish I short story experiences in a P . flavors of the current Newa day by day don’t, so wf" highlights of my chronology °J visit. TUESDAY. J°LY 2 ^^“^hroZh M ^^of^ Of that ] i"KreS,.^l^‘"e0/ siShW^J^Io on the sire* tapes and rad happenini ,he hy‘^f^ozea ‘"jau-or^ Manhattan support^ (However, the Walter Bishop Jr• were visibly By RICK MITCHELL To quote the immoj/ «ords o, I Stevie /“"/rr’ed it!” We York-just hke 1 t0 the West rode the subway' University, to End, near Colu b legendary j° J one , Basie Band drummer with t w u over 70 and inthe’SOsand 40s ^{f and on for a cancer patien a short set several years>^ displayed of swing-era stanoa bis still-masterful light touch and * of show- sense manship,but ne- really cooked between mten gOod-humore horn voicing, ’“/taste tor the funk rhythms. (He looks-sort absurd is V^^bury Phyllis Diller) of a Haight-Ashhury^ from her playing most studies,’ wit latest album, Soci surprising the addition ,inison vocals, the Louis band lifted the c O’Ferral (son Bley and young arranger Chico of noted Latinja^ tbe piano and O’Ferral) took electric bassist «-”• held down Gary VaJ * Dagradi saxophonist Tony memOrable featured ma compteint was with solos. ’^^who seemed to drummer D Sha ncr tbanthc convey the abstract to write funk. Aslong^ t ms. Bley should funky arrangement^ find a real funk , o^tland’s Bruce chops, someone FRIDAY, JULY 3 my girlfriends ”ghton<*‘<’»" ver His younger accompanists, Ptamst weyc — and bassist Jamil ck> while fellow holding themelv (W-EIW® old-timer HaroW by his band) was left^ The crowd relatively bries musicians included a number pupil most bad * th?f glad Iwas there to We treated mother to ( -th S30 tickets ^ash Br dway Ladies,’ the music of puke sical based on tn ticketS) an Ellington. (1 Pa nce tbat music unpleasant exp aboUt.) The journalists tend t worth ’how was w°t^mpeccable.band the pnee, wl%ington (Duke s son), led by mp dancm« from and spectacula vi:nes (the coroner male lead Crego^^ looks a little bit in Wolfen),^° younger days, like Duke did m y b w can be The only flaw tn the ^^bite summed up m au-black cast people. Apparently risky was de yet even the m formers—dance of the white P voCalist Tern Adrian Ball®y capture the spirit <rf Klausner—fai their balle WEDNESDAY JULY 29 like what I Ow this was Bley’s 11- ^^■^T’midnight set at piece band m a a Greenwich Seventh Avenue South Brecker VBW dub n»"/ W MtK. / Brothers. reminding me of the young/hip/nch’ except with jazz Troubadorm • tbe cemer of instead pf ro sbppery money attention. Despi ® the bar had a , the jukebox m selection ( • holiday s pproxinmlc ord« B r . ••Nobody sBrznes», Be My Baby ’ Tonight” and “Shake It Dp <<wound Mid- Miles D^bf Tand the Benjamin . uselessly miscast. h£ on >he °,h“ hand, his role with an easy ££ that the movements m past a»1 P'”'" lar hiack dancing to a styles ot coincidental^. » high art. did for black precisely B accused „f racism, n music. (Lest membered that should be drummer, Louis Ellington’s fa when it comes to Bellson, was white. ifs not jUst Clinton St. Quarterly 35
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