Jazz at Cliff Walk Manor
Baby Laurence
performer
Festival
1960-06-30
Cliff Walk Manor Hotel
This "rump festival" was held simultaneous to the Newport Jazz Festival held over the Fourth of July (and extended it). Organized by Charlie Mingus and Max Roach, and constituting a rebellion against which they claimed was the small pay the Newport Festival accorded its lesser-known attractions. Performance featured Baby Laurence performing two numbers, backed by the Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop that, with the help of a couple microphones tilted against the front edge of the platform on which he danced, went off like machine guns.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Balliett, Whitney: Dinosaurs in the Morning: 41 Pieces on Jazz. Jazz Book Club (1965).
Tap Dance America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
"Baby" Laurence Jackson (biography)
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tda
IHAS
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