Pop Eye, “The New Jazz” by Richard Goldstein
It was a hot Sunday night in more ways than one that WOR FM chose to celebrate its first anniversary. The Slavic legion were out along Second Avenue, and it was a different kind of music they were after (“when you go to Tompkins Square, wear some armor in your hair”)…
Jeremy and the Satyrs (ne the Jeremy Steig Quartet) have successfully made the transition from jazz to rock not because they grew their hair or contemporized their material, but because the rock audience is ready for jazz, when it is new and rocking. The crow was listening, and the fact that Jeremy and the Satyrs did not move like a rock group (they stood dead still) or feel like one (gray hair and jazzman mod) made little difference. Nobody really cared if they were slumming from a superior artform; the sound they made was good and raunchy rock ‘n’ roll…