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Baste,Gillet on 'The Gift By Dale Smoak Gamocock Staff Writer With Count Basie and his big band coming to Columbia November 14 courtesy of th< University Union's Cultural Series, an< T^i 77\7 flillocnio Kr? inrT Krni trthf Vinm JL/1-t.t.T MVllIg Ml UU^Ill ISUI t lllli coming spring by the Kitani Foundation, th< release of The Gifted Ones (Pablo 2310 833 is timely for local audiences. Gillespie trumpet, and Basie, piano, are ac companied by Ray Brown, bass, and Micke} Roker, drums. Gillespie, with Charlie Parker, Theloniou: Monk and others, was a founder of the jaz: style known as bebop. He stands" as th< father of the modern jazz trumpet; even trumpet player after him has been in fluenced by him. Even avant-garde trumpe players today are drawing on Gillespie ii their use of odd tonal effects. Hear Dizzy': second solo on "Back to the Land," ? vocalized, half-valved statement that coul< have been played bv a new music trumpe player. Also, Gillespie remains one of th< most rhythmically exciting soloists in jazz. Forty years ago, Basie showed that a bij band could swing with the ease and fluency of a small group. His minimal, spare pian< playing, with effective use of space, i: inimitably his own. He does not oftei feature it with his big band, which make; this quartet date welcome. As producer Norman Granz explains ii his notes, Basie and Gillespie are fron different musical eras, Basie having starte< 15 years before Gillespie, and Gillespie ha: gone iuriner in nis musical explorations Granz said that he was looking for theii Crispin' uy Marc Moss sior^ Gamecock Staff Writar tryir It has been 20 years since Ed- funn mund Crispin's last book, The Mov Moving Toyshop (which, by the itne way, Penguin has just released in paperback), and time has We definitely improved his wonderful Gliml style. When I read those first doubt urispm dooks, n was a renei irom have the usual plodding mystery. Here that i was a very literate author. He you r knew his classics, he had very hand well-rounded characters hrieht dialogue and he tried to make The But YRockford' I I Mariette J i| By Peter J. Bo' AP T ale vision Wri LOS ANGELES (AP) ? All, yes, he's charming, the lovable knight-errant of M private eye. The return of The Rock/ord Files to N event of the new TV season; certainly, i Friday night (on television, anyway). , pack it in after last season, but NBC, wi class, talked Garner into a sixth season. mu: i ? L -Li ?i - ? i ins season prouamy reany win De noc the show the attention it deserves. Law | pearance later this season, and tonight' Hartley, Garner's "wife" on those snappj Garner and Hartley transude charisma of classy cons. In tonight's show, Rockford ? he of thi ? is faced with liquidation because an i 4 f- t-:? -irt. 1- - iikiiy scuicuiciii irum iimi uuer an auio a Hartley plays a court-appointed receii Rockford pays off. Of course, she falls foi a typical Rockford caper, involving a 1 neighbor who sued him. Along to prove that Rockford's choice o luck is Angel, the cowardly con who'd sel ; save his own skin, half a minute for a bucl \nd Noah Beery is back as that wondc | - ->rs with his son's risky doings by worrj Friday Night Pizza and Rockford S< $ A happy routine. Tames Earl Jones, the man of the mag I;-irdav night. Unfortunately, he arrives CBS. ? ictu Paris is not so awful; it's just m a * jl 4i t- - ul J i ^,-- .jusi anomer cop snow, wun ai .1 out of a "How to make a cop show f "is is far from being the worst of the nHHrnHb ted Ones' common denominator of attitude and style. Considering Granz's statement, it should be 2 no surnrisp that four of thp six tunrc atp 2 blues, a timeless form common to all jazz 1 musicians and one that has proved over the 5 years especially suited to Basie. 2 Gillespie's sound and articulation are ) clearer than usual, and his blistering in, troduction to "Back to the Land," the first - cut, should instantly dispel any doubts about / the effects of age on his technique and range. Gillespie's favorite cliches have s become familiar, partly due to his z longevity, and he unfortunately falls back 3 on them too often, most notably on the two / slow blues that open the album. His - characteristic use of repeated high note t figures to build tension, followed by a i- -f A? ?i?il?*^-11-. i uesijeiiuiiig cascade 01 nines, rnyinmicauy 5 unpredictable, is in evidence on this record, j As always, he makes liberal use of a mute, i remaining the finest muted trumpeter in t jazz. Dizzy's best solo is on "St. James e Infirmary," a 32-bar tune. Basie's comping, as usual, is. always I right. His least interesting solos are on the y two slow blues. Basie's solos on "You Got 3 It" and "Follow the Leader," the two faster s blues, are better because the tempos allow i him to utilize space more effectively, s Characteristic of players of his era, his solos are phrased in four and eight-bar segments, l unlike Gillespie's whose phrasing is more i varied. Like Dizzy, Basie is very good on i "St. James Infirmary," where his last eight s bars are gorgeous. Excellent support is given by the rhythm r section of Brown and Roker. On the slower 's mystei / funny. You could tell he was plot of The C ig to make them uproarously is razor shar y; ine nriai cnase scene in i ne the classic s ing Toyshop, for example, but the first vii ver quite came off. dispatched, second corps 11, time has changed him. The pses of the Moon is without a ~ Crispin t the funniest mystery book I strings, tying ever read, and believe me, vmaxing me is quite a few. I suggest that indifferent d ead it with a Kleenex in one Fen. , for you'll laugh until you cry. If you lil : beneath Crispin's humor, the steadily cor another, tl j 1 Professor of )QC#C IDlth to do so h I i-1 I indifferent. ] the first mui Hartley * yer Fen is on < ,ar in a small E back. Street tough and parlor a book on alibu Beach: James Rockford, novel. When an ancient < BC may be the most welcome from Burge t's the best thing to happen to others to a James Garner had wanted to bered corps liltl PmilH ill offsxt'A tkn Inon nt WAR SflHifttif ?v*a an ailVK U VIIV/ 1VMO VFI " *" *" ~"" kford's last, and NBC is giving He . f ren Bacall makes a guest ap- fin(Js ^ s premiere features Mariette an r camera commercials. t , and they work it like a couple time ^ * (? 0(V)H intonHmia unH hnsi lunlr I and - o-"-"- *uvn victim'q a inf riendly neighbor has won a under the n in the hunt I /er, who s there to make sure ; Rockford and gets involved in ^he Cj1an oony bin, gold and the nasty personalitie a Teutonic f companions is worse than his horror film II his pal Jimmy in a minute to iriiic a tn | M VV ?rful old innocent, Rocky, who book^fs^fi ring about breakfast. motorcycle Kiety, you've got another year fake gotti makes on< ;ical voice, comes to series TV wonderlam i in a battered jalopy of a show through a fronted wit not very good. Ordinary is the happenings ullish dialogue and characters love, vice r" mflnnal mnntflpd rn newcomers, but it is certainly> I The Glint -vav/- ? I . I ?. . 11 1 J, .1 il 5^SpiHSiE2 ?U|. " ' ag ^tSPOsK'' tunes, Brown's habit of playing triplets gives some rhythmic movement to the 1 proceedings. His solos are interesting and < nueni, ana ms cnora waiKing is supero. i ry feature ilimpses of the Moon, joy to read; in fact, I'll p. Although it follows traveling cap that it wi ...24L ifAar'c rv> /\ A 00/ ayit: ? upeillllg WlUl a tiikus naa< ctim already neatly Award for the best myster; and then adding a e at the right moment nV. plays very subtle v. ^ t in a previous murder t 8 total three) and an ^ nev?rhad an ajru>w#i letective in Gervese # ',V -V- . * - - - ? ???.? ? tipiles one clue after * rafs ? |SSB JT English Gervese Fen ? ||g|l j| He carries tne neaa 01 s sabbatical from Oxford it Jj the post war British 8 H mm B i the mumbled words of yVv^HIB old man turn his mind ' WlMmI e whose only vice in life | j| rioise wno oniy^ eais races, cow races and a land constantly con h comical people, wild F rpses. , * ' 'A*fvJ ipscs of the Moon is a ZffiiliiS^^fci.. ^/^^SMBKBSHBS^^gSw BSJ if ! JHh?^ JBSBKBTjr'.;: i?-'Cli_'-- - { * *> ' Reasons for his status as one of the greatest >f all jazz bassists can be easily heard on his record. * s humor bet my year. The book is a challenge. Can ns this you read it and stop laughing long xnatinn enough to beat Fen to the startlins y of the conclusion? I bet not. V- \ ' V, . "y.; . V X , e who my favorite mystery writer i* ? * In. . -1 K* .1.11M " r umu i awcovorea fiamuna viwp?? Brener, Murder Ink. * mm 1 B3H % a n&xmSL mm I Bfcyt- SSg^Sp* Hh? ' 4^ I apFiin^Bk ^^vnw vj 'a 4Bk K ftflBtJr^^ML^^^fe yc^m, y%> 1W J ^KJBW m ?<*<' A*-;' ''' * ?. \ ' ' ' . "t \ V.