Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: Most of the music stores in town (Briggs included) have finally gotten sheet copies of the Bob Zurke and Jesse Stacy piano solos. While they're not too easy to read, they're worth the try . . . To see just how much influence Louis Armstrong did exert on jazz, catch the opening bars in Erskine Hawkins' "Swing Out," his theme song . . . Art Tatum's piano on "Tea For Two" (Decca) while not real swing, is interesting enough technically to make listening...
...have accepted are: John P. Armstrong, Francis G. Barnum, Thomas A. Boulger, Arthur Cantor, Edmund S. Childs, Jr., L. Blair Clark, Eugene V. Clark, William C. Coleman, Eric Cutler, Ralph H. Cutler, William H. Daughaday, James T. Devine, George A. Downing, Henry N. Ervin, John N. Fulham, Robert Fulton, Tudor Gardiner, Theodore L. Hazlett...
...well worth it. With the exception of Murray McEachern, trombone-sax man recently acquired from Benny Goodman, the band doesn't play much swing. But it does play a great deal of the ensemble work that made it famous as a dance outfit and for excellent commercial. Catch Louis Armstrong's duet with PeeWee Hunt for the difference between someone that phrases and one that just sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable taste--and is a relief from tunes like "Three Little...
Sued for Divorce. Gladys Dubois Armstrong, Hollywood song writer; by Robert Armstrong, 42, cinema tough-guy; in Hollywood. Grounds: mental cruelty and his wife's insistence that they live in Mexico...
...confused with Negro Boxer Henry Armstrong...