Word: alto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CHARLES G. NORRIS Palo Alto, Calif...
...swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated his tenth anniversary about a month ago. You'd think he would have run out of ideas by now, but his alto chorus on "All of Me" is really one for the books. Helen O'Connell's vocal shows much improvement, being more like Mildred Bailey, but is still too stiff. Listen to Bobby Byrn backing Helen's vocal, and figure out whether he plays trombone or trumpet...
John Bragg '41 almost succeeded in copying Frankie Trambauer's alto sax solo on "singing the Blues" but lost himself half way through. Jack Harlow fared better with Bix's trumpet solo, only to mar an otherwise good performance with a cloudy tone, not at all representative of Beiderbecks...
...woogie tempo is better, but shows that Teddy Wilson can't play this style . . . To find why many musicians like Red Norvo's band, listen to "I Get Along Without You Very. Well" (Vocation) . . . Teddy Wilson's "More Than You Know" (Brunswick) with Billie Holiday vocal and Benny Carter alto sax has that proper feeling that goes into a real swing record . . . Made three days before she started to sing regularly with the band, Helen O'Connell's first record with Jimmy Dorsey (Decca) "Romance Runs In The Family," is an excellent job, though not nearly up to what...
Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...