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...Eddie Davis's orchestra. There is dancing here, very hard while you're eating but not bad if you're drinking. If you are after the best, and you have just lost a little-known relative in the oil business, don't dally--take off for "21" W. 52nd...
Jimmy Ryan's is the last 52nd Street place on 52nd St., between Sixth and Fifth Avenues. Such giants of American music as Jimmy Archey, Pops Foster, and Tommy Henford are oking out their livelihoods there now. Back downtown, Eddle Condon's 47 West 3rd, features Davison, Edmund Hall, and Ralph Sutton. Nick's, Seventh Avenue and 10th, employs Pee Wee Erwin's ensemble at present. Birdland, Broadway and 52nd, has a considerably less garish bill of fare than usual, headed by Art Tatum and Lennie Tristano's popular group...
...only long-run comedy on the boards is Mister Roberts (Alvin, 52nd W.). For heavy drama, Death of A Salesman (Morosco, 45th W.) packs a powerful punch, with Thomas Mitchell as the salesman. The Cocktail Party (Henry Miller, 43rd E.) and The Member of the Wedding (Empire, B'way and 40th) both offer good serious drama...
...first big job was playing piano for Trumpeter "Bunny" Berrigan in a hole in the wall in Manhattan's "Jazz Street" (West 52nd) called The Famous Door. In 1938, Tommy Dorsey, who then had a couple of staff singers named Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra, picked Bushkin up from Berrigan. Dorsey hired him as a pianist even before he heard him play a piano; he liked his musicianship on the trumpet-an instrument Joe had taken up in high school. One of Joe's songs, Oh, Look at Me Now, was Sinatra's first solo...
Headache Factories. By the time blond, good-natured Shearing made the trip to the U.S., his friend Waller was dead and something called bop was mushrooming in 52nd Street basements. Shearing took the best job he could get: a union-scale, six-night-a-week grind in a 52nd Street club. Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk. But conservative Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite...