Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notes between the notes: This week's collection of facts and rumors assumes such proportions that we have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered...
...rumor, but definite fact is it that the swing end of the Freshman smoker the other night was really swell. Jack Hill's band was very solid backing and played good swing on its own numbers, Roy Eldridge and Albert Ammons stole the show with their fine jazz, Ella Fitzgerald really made a tremendous hit (she later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship...
...correspondent uses this analogy to point out the nature of the proposed transition, which is to be from a league of states to a union of citizens. The nations which would band together in such a union would have a common citizenship, defense force, currency and communications system. There would be no customs barriers within the union...
With the announcement that Yardlings will be allowed to have girls as guests for two meals in the Union on Saturday, May 27, the plans for the Jubilee weekend near completion. Other late developments call for Jack Hill's band which will play from 3:30 to 6:30 at the tea dance arranged for the afternoon after the big Freshman affair...
...Hills band played for the Smoker and was so well received that the committee is taking this opportunity of bringing him back again. We hope the free dance will alleviate the strain which the weekend might place on many Freshman pocketbooks," stated Newman...