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...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...
...times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...