Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dixon's the Mooney four last week came up with more fresh musical ideas in an evening than most full-size bands get in a season. Bandsmen like Duke Ellington and players from other orchestras dropped in after hours to listen. Not since the wonderful first days of the Benny Goodman quartet had they heard the unit discipline that keeps all four men inside the same melodic scheme, yet leaves each musician free to create a succession of original and often exciting figures...
...individual also found cause for complaint in the heavy practice schedule demanding six hours a week, for which only one athletic credit a week is given. Bandsmen rehearse two hours Wednesday evenings, two hours Friday evenings, and must report at 12 o'clock Saturday, on the day a game, for final field manuvers...
...inducement to otherwise unoccupied trumpet tooters the Band advertises that athletic credits will be given to he who spends his time playing the arrangements (also exclusive) under the direction of Malcolm Holmes. Of course, choice grandstand seats also act as lures to the bandsmen. First tryouts will be held Tuesday evening in the Paine Music Building...
Izvestia frowned particularly at a jazzy comrade named Eddy Rozner, who leads the Government-sponsored State Jazz Orchestra of White Russia, and is one of the hottest of the Soviet Union's not-so-hot bandsmen. His band is one of the six most popular in the U.S.S.R., ranks with Leonid Utesov and his "Merry Lads" who go in for such literal stunts in showmanship as mounting the drummer on a massive 20-ft. high stand built like a drum...
...Lombardo, Gibraltar of the dance bandsmen, became an airline operator for Manhattan commuters, promised that his Long Island Airlines (4 Grumman Widgeons) would run 19 round trips a day for the hurried & well-heeled, beginning next week...