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...inch records) is young, and it likes to fiddle around with tunes. A fine rhythm section-Baby Dodds, drums; Pops Foster, bass; Ralph Sutton, piano; and Danny Parker, guitar-make the base for all of these pieces. This segment stands out in "Eccentric" behind Davison's trumpet. Jimmy Archey, the small trombonist who made such a big noise in Boston last winter, handles the leads on "Hotter Than That" and "Big Butter And Egg Man," teaming on the latter with Sutton to manufacture a beautiful duct...
...Tishomingo Blues" is a slow number for a smooth Davison-Archey coup; "Sensation" a quickstep for Baby Dodds' imaginative drums. Those who like Chippie Hill's brash singing will clap their hands for joy when they play "Baby Won't You Please Come Home," for the venerable lady appears here for one side...
...girl who has just passed her twenty-first birthday should know a trombone when she sees one, but the question had its points. Playing the trombone was Jimmy Archey, whose name is not on the marquee, but who seems the outstanding member of a rare band. The Wilber group has a very special talent for integration and quiet harmony which makes it a welcome change from the noisy cacophony which seems popular now. Wilber, Archey, and the aged Pops Foster take turns backing restrained solo breaks, with only the final choruses of such venerable numbers as "Rose Room," "Muskrat Ramble...
...jazz almost lost now, for the cash comes to other forms of music. But it's nice to see a beardless youth like Wilber playing it straight, playing it so close to Cambridge, and playing it so well. Wilber on the low notes, Hall on the high ones, and Archey's trombone make the Savoy's offering as good as anything going. Charles W. Halley...
...night, the best bowlers in the land spun the big balls down the alleys in the musty-aired, Victorian recreation building at Archer Avenue and 35th (Mr. Dooley's "Archey Road"). Only experts (averaging a score of 180 a game) were eligible (2,080 of them anted $25 each to build the prize total...