Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably Jazz Information's standards were too high for its own material good. It refusal to compromise with what it called "quasi-jazz," its strict adherence to the New Orleans-Louis Armstrong line, may have scared off many who needed to be educated gradually to an appreciation of the vital spark of the great jazz improvisers. It appealed, therefore, almost exclusively to confirmed addicts, and for them it performed a great service with its thoughtful criticisms and biographies of well-known jazzmen. To the ex-jitterbug who has tired of jive, however, its almost esoteric articles and dogmatic policy seemed...
Theodore M. Adelson '44, Charles G. Alex '43, Gordon Allen '42, Joseph M. Ambrose '42, Adolbert Ames 3d. '43, John W. Armstrong Jr. '42, Fred G. Arragg '44, Alfred L. Atherton...
...year ago, Robinson fought his first professional fight-on the preliminary card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...
Fortunately, however, there are some old dependable still around. The reissues continue to bloom amid the weeds, with the Louis Armstrong Earl Hines album perhaps the best of a satisfying list including a couple of old Teddy Wilsons and Decca's third Gems of Jazz set, which may have escaped someone's notice over the summer. Victor has been producing a Duke Ellington coupling every week or two. 'Twas said Ben Webster's Kansas City tenor sax wouldn't fit in with the highly sophisticated Ellington arrangements, but Duke is building backgrounds for Ben to improvise against, and on "Just...
Louis and Earl (Columbia's album). More fine jazz reissues of Armstrong and Hines, and a previously unissued master discovered in Columbia's "archives"-the remarkable trumpet-piano duet Weather Bird...