Modern jazz is reaching the point of dilemma. In its approach toward concert music, it tends to wander from the regular beat of four-to-the-bar, but that beat is the pulse of jazz, and when it fades it is best to have a doctor in the house. Teddy Charles, a widely experienced jazz man from Chicopee Falls, Mass., researches the problem with his vibraphone and nine congenial colleagues, develops a nice cure on an adventurous new LP, The Teddy Charles Tentet (Atlantic).
In single works, e.g., Vibrations, he daringly switches from one kind of rhythm...
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