Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boys in the band, for this Sunday, will be Charlie Vinal (clarinet), Johnny Windhurst (cornet), George Lugg (trombone,) Ev Schwarz (piano), Johnny Fields (bass), Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York...
...confessed that the performance of "Pinafore" was disappointing from a group that did such a magnificent job on "The Mikado" earlier in the week. For the first voice to really strike the ear in "The Mikado" was the clear baritone of Peacock as Pish-Tush (there isn't a bass in the entire company) and the next thing to hit was the ability of Ames. Then Peacock's voice cracked in "Trial by Jury" and broke in "Pinafore," while Ames couldn't talk by the end of the operetta. They have somewhat recovered, however...
Robert Pitkin nearly stole the show as the Mikado, and did himself justice as the usher in "Trial by Jury" and as Dick Dead-Eye, although the latter part required a bass which he was not able to supply. James Gerard, the romantic lead of the company and its only good tenor, does not quite look the part of the handsome Ralph Rackstraw or a Nanki-Poo. His substitute, Allen Stewart, who played the defendant in "Trial by Jury," is better looking but his voice does not have the required lyrical quality...
...Ragtime Jimmy" played in the classic razzmatazz style- heavy chording in the bass and light finagling in the treble-of which he is still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner...
...week later, on power plays and unexpectedly tight pass defense, the Giants smothered the Redskins 31-7. Gamblers made the Giants 8-5 favorites in the playoff for the right to meet Chicago's Bears this Sunday for the National Football League Championship. But the odds ignored a bass-voiced 29-year-old Texan named Samuel Adrian Baugh...