JAZZ, ETC.

Frankle Newton, Vic Dickerson, Al Morgan, and Arthur Karle were featured at the Harvard Jazz Club's fourth jam session at Dunster House last Saturday. The band was in fine fettle and the afternoon turned into one of the best sessions in the series.

Dickerson, up from New York's Downtown Cafe Society, blew some magnificent, dirty trombone and was the hit of the affair with his horn and vocal and Black and Blue. Newton and Morgan shared the vocals on a blues that also highlighted the session, and Arthur Karle (ex-Goodman tenor saxophonist) knocked out the crowd with several fine choruses. The musicians form something of a mutual admiration society and it certainly showed in the wonderfully cohesive ensembles they improvised on most numbers.

It was like the old Teddy Wilson-Billie Holiday Brunswick records--without Teddy and Billie. Best of all, for me, was the consistently fine trumpet of Frankie Newton, who later played at a slightly phenomenal cocktail party thrown in Lowell C-33 by Kenny Berol--duets with Johnny Fields (string base) and an empty punch bowl with the resultant roomful of loaded guests. It was almost like a Yale party.