Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing there but a rather noisy brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
...stylists, Hinton has a concerto, "Plucking the Bass," released last week on Vocalion, that will really make you sit up and take notice. Barker is the new trumpet man Calloway added only a short while ago and plays much in the manner of Roy Eldridge. Jefferson is the terrific alto man formerly with Fletcher Henderson...
...Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue, as are Sal Pace (alto), Johhny Martel (former Goodman trumpet man), and Miff Sims (trombone), all of whom are good. Paula Kelly and Phil Brito do the vocals, both being personable and good; the former has always been one of my favorite pop tune singers...
Died. Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, 89, president emerita of the Istanbul Women's College; of a heart attack; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...French women in War II, was not in France last week. She was dined and bedded by Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the White House at Washington, D. C. Thence Eve Curie would start her two-month lecture tour of the U. S. - from Kalamazoo to Palo Alto, from Denver to Savannah - on French Women...