Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters, whooping it up in folk-song and endearing himself to the no-collar vote...
...evening of pure, concentrated hellraising, we suggest Fats Waller at the Southland. I heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
...band prefers one sort of rhythm--a style of jump that starts very softly and lightly and ends by tearing the all gently down. Fats himself plays fine rhythm and occasionally takes off on solo flights that are just as good as anything he has ever done. Plus the fact that he puts on a killer of a show all during the evening, busting all the remaining vest buttons with a little demonstration on the art of trucking at the end of the show...
There have been many rumors of his leaving the band business due to financial troubles. And that he thinks he will accept a job playing as side man for a big studio orchestra...
This type of story perennially springs up about almost everybody in the business. Whether it is true or not, Bunny is going to be worth hearing. As for Mr. Crosby, this is a band that, besides doing most things extremely well, plays slow blues in a way that is worth hearing. Most of the good lead men in the band are from New Orleans, and therefore playing good blues is practically second nature to them. More about this fine bunch next week when a little more space is lying around...