Word: basses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eleven years-1923-34-balding, spectacled McDaniel was one of Donnell's star pupils in a Sunday School men's Bible class held in the church basement. Around an old borrowed piano the class sang hymns before & after the weekly lecture, McDaniel's rolling bass harmonizing with Donnell's baritone. Serious, somewhat prissy Bible-Teacher Donnell permitted no antics, and caper-cutting Pupil McDaniel was a good boy in class. When the church trustees needed money, they raised it by holding humorous mock trials in which the legal chums and such pupils as square-jibbed, religious...
...Freddie Slack (piano). It's called Southpaw Serenade, and gives the two musicians an opportunity to get out of the Will Bradley rut and really play some jazz. Freddie Slack's boogie-woogie shows the strong influence of Albert Ammons, plus an amazing talent for employing highly original bass figures. Top honors, however, go to McKinley's vocal. For a change he sings authentic blues, with a dirty old rasp in his voice which is pleasant to hear after the corny Will Bradley novelties (COLUMBIA) . . . Speaking of boogie-woogie, COLUMBIA has just released an album of reissues. Offerings include...
...prepare the first complete text on criminal law to be published since 1865, Professor Sam Bass Warner, of the Law School, has been relieved of his teaching duties and is devoting all of his time to a survey of the field, Dean Landis revealed in his annual report...
...sides issued by the Hot Record Society, and which I was unable to review when they were released six weeks ago. The band playing is called Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, and includes Teagarden, Rex Stewart (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), and Dave Tough (drums). The tunes are: St. James' Infirmary, Shine, The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise, and Big Eight Blues...
...well as Roscoe McRae . . . Speaking of jam sessions, you can hear a pretty good recorded one on the four sides issued by the Commodore Music Shop. Band features Marty Marsala (trumpet), George Brunies (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), "Maurice" (known to his best friends as Fats Waller), Artie Shapiro (bass), Eddie Condon (guitar), and George Wettling (drums). Solos don't measure up to the standards set on the Teagarden date, but the musicians have a wonderful talent for getting together on the finish and really making the last couple of choruses jump. Best side is Oh Sister Ain't That...