Word: armstrongs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basic, Bix Beiderbecke and Frank Teschemacher. Decca has marketed such choice collections as Riverboat Jazz and Harlem Jazz, 1930. Asch has continued to record the jazz chamber music played in Manhattan's nightclubs by Mary Lou Williams and Art Tatum...
Getting ready for San Francisco, Senator Vandenberg followed diplomatic custom and bought himself a black Homburg. He flew out in 15 hours in an Army transport with Fellow Delegate Virginia Gildersleeve, Delegation Adviser John Foster Dulles, the State Department's Hamilton Fish Armstrong. His wife went by train. In San Francisco they have a two-room suite at the Fairmont Hotel, from which, over the rooftops of Chinatown, they...
Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, the bald, monolithic professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University who perfected FM, proposed a compromise-just a short move next door, say, to a 48-to-66 band. Major Armstrong probably knows more than any other man alive about FM, which is about as easy to understand at first glance as a menu written in Sanskrit. Beginners might start with some of the following facts...
Pops Foster pounded the bass drum with numerous New Orleans marching bands, but later shifted to his present instrument, string bass, when he joined Kid Ory's Band in 1910. Since then Pops has appeared with Louie Armstrong, Luis Russell, and nearly every other outstanding colored orchestra. Fred Moore on drums and Hank Duncan at the Piano add a touch of youth to the Bechet group. Both grew up in the '20's-those glorious days of prohibition--and have gained fame only recently after leaving the Crescent City to appear at various New York bistros...
...curfew on nightspots about to cut Manhattan's big bands off the air at the stroke of 12, the networks were combing the Midwest for late hour fill-ins. Some of the substitutions planned: Chris Cross (Denver) for Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo; George Sterney (Cleveland) for Louis Armstrong; George Hamilton (St. Louis) for George Olsen and Leo Reisman; Boyd Raeburn (Chicago) for Tony Pastor...