Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There isn't much to say about the six sides of blues that Mildred Bailey has made for Vocalion. It seems to me that they are some of the finest jazz ever cut--done with taste, originality and ideas. Instead of shouting them, Mildred sings them in that famous subtle style of hers, and they are definitely tops...
Dartmouth is tops in the jumps: Blount in the broad jump, Haddon, Hunter and Blount in the high jump, and George Bailey and Dan Dyer in the vault seem too much for the Crimson's Partlow-Haydock-Madey trio. Blount will probably be the only man to hit the daily double...
About records: Mildred Bailey releases six sides of blues, backed by her Oxford Greys (an all star colored band) next week that should make record history . . . Charlie Barnet's "Echoes of Harlem" while not up to the Duke version of same, is quite good . . . The Woody Herman of "Woodchopper's Ball" is a very good side of blues with trombone by Neil Reed. No adjectives needed. . . For some remarkable changes, even for Ellington, get "Something To Live For" (Brunswick) and listen to the introduction. . . Hampton's "Wizzin' the Wizz" is supposed to be even better two fingered piano. I still...
...Stroke, Bailey; seven, Turner; six, Pierce; five, Gifford; four, Hazard; three, Crocker; two, Koeniger, bow, Gilkey; and Coxswain, Phippen...
...Salvador Dali could not have concocted such a triumph of weird and otherworldly wildness as kicked up the dust in Sanders Theatre last night. Fantastic masks, brilliant costumes, lighting of all colors of the rainbow,--it's impossible to describe, but the nearest thing to it is Barnum and Bailey at their best, minus the elephants...