Word: autrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis: C. Ford Morrill '34, 1601 Railway Exchange Building; Southern California: December 29, Wayne P. Smith '93, 832 11th Street, Santa Monica, California; Syracuse, New York: December 24, E. Tefft Barker '37, Hiscock, Cowie, Bruce, Lee and Mawhinney; Texarkana, Arkansas: Leroy Autrey, 2402 Pecan Street...
...JEAN AUTREY Kissimmee...
...with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally, is probably the most unappreciated jazz musician alive), slips in a tenor ride passage and Herman Autrey a trumpet. Finally, Fats takes the release, and by the time everybody else comes in for a terrific finish on the last eight bars, the tune is properly murdered. And I don't know of any small band that can take a finish the way Fats and his boys do. They...