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...Miller's oldtimers were still there. Such jump pieces as Tuxedo Junction and Little Brown Jug, which the band played more to amuse itself than the customers, had changed a little, but the boys still did the corny hat-throwing stunts that had drawn Miller fans around the bandstand. Said Tex: "It's corny, but Glenn was one for commercial corn. If you don't have it you flop...
...Terrific Content." In 1927 the Cotton Club was a big, flossy Harlem joint at 143rd Street and Lenox Avenue, with bandana tablecloths, fake foliage and a reputation as a speakeasy. But Harvard and Princeton boys soon found the way there and crowded around the bandstand on weekends. They muttered sagely to each other "terrific mood, terrific content" as the Duke played such originals as The Mooche, Mood Indigo and Black and Tan Fantasy. The New Orleans jazz boys were then spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language...
Competition with other College musical organizations, however, soon drove the band out of the concert business, and subsequent sporadic attempts to introduce classical scores to the bandstand met little interest until this year when Malcolm H. Holmes '28, present conductor, and another veteran-heavy group of musicians took the plunge...
...front on the bandstand, his chunky bulk overlapping a fragile barroom chair, sat Sidney, his shiny golden saxophone in hand. Behind was Lloyd Phillips, grinning at an upright piano with its insides laid bare. A Neolithic-looking fellow named Freddie Moore stared glumly at his drums. Lloyd began patting it out and Freddie picked up the beat. Then old Sidney started. The other members of the trio had sense enough to stay out of Sidney...
...Richberg, onetime NRA brain-truster, rose in Philadelphia to warn the nation that unless labor was put in its place, the U.S. would be driven "deeper & deeper into a political war which may become a civil war." And Bandleader Art Mooney, pondering what he had seen from the bandstand, reported that wild dancing to hot music was ruining the shapes of American girls. He noted their "piano legs, wide bottoms, thick waists, and hefty bosoms," feared an even uglier future...