Word: band
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band (This Is Jazz: II, 2 12-inch records) was composed of older players, men who for the most part had given up music until 1943, when Ory put them together for a West Coast tour. These four sides, cut in 1947, are fine examples of a Dixieland that even the purists will like; yet neither old age-Edward Ory was born in 1889-nor an old style can make these records dated...
...force of an artist like George Brunis, but his low-register slides and his beautiful background work for Bud Scott's dry vocal make a neat piece. The other side of this one, "Savoy Blues," takes off on this old standard to display all the talents in the band-trombone, clarinet, guitar, bass, piano, and trumpet solos are packed between opening and closing choruses. Joe Darensbourg's clarinet stands out among the others here...
These two albums are varied in style: Ory's band is thinking in terms of a pre-prohibition New Orleans and Davison's in terms of a speak easy Memphis or Chicago. But they are both honest, both pretty much unrehearsed, both happy and medolie. These men are playing around with old friends. When Ory breaks in to ask "How you feeling, Mr. Wilson?", the latter replies with a two-chorus solo that is all the answer required. If you're sick of singing saxophones, try these for a chaser. At present, only Briggs and Briggs and the College Music...
...white background. Meanwhile the girls' section is com- Pletely equipped with pompoms. These are sticks with a lot of red and white confetti on the and, Whenever anything exciting happens, a mass of pom-poms waves madly in the air, and whenever the band plays, all the red and white confetti moves in time to the music...
...given this executive committee, most students feel that it is a do-nothing organization. A move to put some 'new life" into the ASSU was started in one election when a non-fraternity man, who had never held an office before, entered the ASSU presidential campaign with a brass band and guitar playing campaign. Under a preferential balloting system, he had a large majority on the first count, but lost in the end by three votes...