Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago's South Side knew...
...flamboyance of high school prose so thoroughly smashed; the rudeness of your peers does it, that and seeing your staff in print. A man learns to write, if not well, at any rate quickly and simply, and generally with the semblance of authority. This is what enables editors to bass examinations and stay in college, and the value of the lesson does not always diminish in later years...
...last week, Denfeld went to see his old & good friend Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's chief of staff. In his half-smothered bass voice, pounding his fist on the desk, mild Louis Denfeld told Leahy that he wanted Radford and nobody else...
Mendelssohn: Elijah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Huddersfield Choral Society, Sir Malcolm Sargent conducting; with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor, Harold Williams, bass-baritone; Columbia, 32 sides). It was Mendelssohn who revived Bach's great St. Matthew Passion 100 years after it was written. Now, 100 years after Mendelssohn's death, his own choral masterpiece, a work of simplicity and directness, gets an excellent performance on records. Recording: good...
...also, on occasion, distributed samples of his poetry, but generally he has written out only enough copies to get through the second bass section. He signs each poem "Endis Endum," which he follows with notations of both the date of original creation and that of the particular copy. The name "Endis Endum" bears no special pertinence, has no special pertinence, has no story behind it other than that Mr. Kennedy has used it as nom-de plume since he became a poet...