NEW YORK _ When she talks about falling down at home, she makes it seem such a trifle that she passes by the details, save for the important one: "I fractured my pelvis," Marian McPartland says, adding, as if she just remembered something else, "like a jerk. It was about two weeks before Christmas.

By Gene Seymour, Newsday, Melville, N.Y. Mar.

By Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Sep. 5--A soft morning rain fell Monday on the Evans Avenue plaza, and south Fort Worth wept for yet another lost jazz hero. Only a week ago, saxophonist Dewey Redman had led off the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in New York.