Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coffee-colored, dead-pan John Kirby, once a trombonist and tuba player, now slaps and bows the bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer...
...Russian," a famous juggler from the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus, whom John Ringling North terms, "by far the best juggler I have ever seen," will also perform. According to Austin Mason, Jr., chairman of the committee arranging the evening, there will be several other equally well-known entertainers...
Grown men started last week when the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The Circus had changed to look as fabulously beautiful as they had imagined it had looked when they were children. The Brothers John and Henry Ringling North, their imaginations inspired by Designer Norman Bel Geddes, had enchanted the traditional "Spec," the great opening parade...
...white tenor sax which shows Georgie Auld to be improving by leaps and bounds. There are few white tenor men who can come near him these days (COLUMBIA) . . . Reissue of the week is Ride Red Ride by the old Mills Blue Rhythm band, which includes Red Allen, Buster Bailey, and J. C. Higginbotham. For a real "killer" tune, you can't go wrong on this. It's played at a breakneck pace, and is a fight to the finish, although it's hard to say who wins (OKEH) . . . Fats Waller turns out more insane novelty on "All That Meat...
...Died. Bailey Millard, 81, oldtime editor of Cosmopolitan and Munsey's magazine who as literary editor of the San Francisco Examiner first published Edwin Markham's Man With the Hoe (1899), helped introduce the writings of Poet Joaquin Miller; in Los Angeles...