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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard, just recovering from a collective cold, seems to be enmeshed in an attack of the blues due to last at least a week. For with Woody Herman and "The Band That Plays The Blues" at the Kirkland House dance tonight, and Jack Teagarden, considered by many to be one of the greatest soloists in jazz, coming to Dunster House next Friday, it looks as though we are going to hear lots of the music that Paul Whiteman says "is the basis of all Jazz...
...Woody's band, previously discussed in this column, plays excellent jazz, both Dixicland and colored style, has good soloists including Woody himself (clarinet), and in general makes for very interesting listening and dancing...
Teagarden has a new band; and since this is to be one of his first jobs, no really accurate information as to the band's performance can be obtained. However, this reviewer heard the rehearsals in New York and thought that it showed signs of being a really great organization. Charley Spivak, formerly Bob Crosby's ace trumpet man, Ernic Cacares, whose sax playing aroused so much comment in New York at Nick's, and Allan Reuss, formerly with Goodman (guitar) are all playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going...
Woody Herman's Band of Raymor fame will play at the Kirkland House dance next Friday night. The dance, which is the Deacons' way of preparing for the Yale meets on Saturday, will be formal and will last from nine to two with a buffet supper at midnight...
Orchestra plans are changed for the Kirkland House Winter Dance Friday night with the coming of Woody Herman and his orchestra to replace the originally scheduled Tommy Reynolds band. The committee announces that there will be no increase in the ticket price of the affair...