Word: albums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...forgotten by the U. S. public, which has in the past three years taken to hot music with an intensity surpassing even the mania of the late 1920's, Bessie Smith died after a motor accident in Clarksdale, Miss. Last week Columbia Phonograph Co. issued a Bessie Smith Album, containing re-pressings of six of the 80-odd records she made between...
...Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album are devoted to Broadway songs: Muddy Water, Alexander's Ragtime Band, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...permanent monument to swing" is RCA Victor's phrase for its latest jazz album, A Symposium of Swing. Its four twelve-inch discs contain selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...
Already three weeks, ahead of last year's schedule on Senior pictures, the Album committee is anxious to maintain the commanding lead that the House men have made possible by their prompt appointments...
Commuters should see Joseph W. Downs Jr. '38 in Dudley Hall at any time between 2 and 5 o'clock today. Proofs of photographs taken up to a week ago are now being returned to Seniors for choice of which they want to appear in the Album...