Word: alto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These two Sunday sessions, though, are not alone in their glory this hot June exam week. Allen's band plays of an evening at the same Ken, where his man Don Stovall plays every pleasing alto. Tuesday time-honored Sidney Bechet will bring another colored group there as a relief band, and if that means no more floor show so much the better. There is Fats Waller at the Tictoc as well, not to forget Sabby Lewis at the hardy perennial Savoy...
Harry Newman tried his best to steal the show. He joined in with the chorus and sang most lustily until an alto in the chorus gave him a dirty look and he shut up. He blushes prettily now when referred to as "The Singing Soldier...
...well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today, and where last week he let Rex and Ben Webster loose, so today it may be Bigard's clarinet, Hodges' alto, or any of three trombones, which gets a chance to dazzle. And since Ellington is generally conceded to be at least a decade ahead of everyone, except perhaps his imitators, that record will be worth hearing--more than once...
...During the heating, the carbon takes the oxygen away from the magnesium, and during the cooling the magnesium is precipitated as a fine powder too fast to recombine with the oxygen. This is called the Hansgirg process, and RFC has financed a $9,250,000 plant at Los Altos, near Palo Alto, Calif., to make 15,000 tons a year. The difficulty with the process is that the hot powdered magnesium is violently explosive. Already there has been a fatal magnesium explosion at Los Altos...
Last week, 1,200 Manhattan clubwomen rallied in honor of the Bill of Rights. To them moody Memsahib Dorothy Thompson raised her armor-piercing alto: "Free speech, free assemblage and a free press did not save the German people from the Nazis. They were the very instruments by which the Nazis came to power...