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...Donald H. Bassist, a librarian at the Business School, won $20,000 last Friday by guessing that Marilyn Monroe would win the 1956 Hollywood Fame Poll Award...
...Bassist won the grand prize on the "Strike It Rich" television show in a drawing of all the contestants in a national sweepstakes who selected Miss Monroe as the Fame Poll winner...
...Jazz Primitif (Rupert Clemendore and John Buddy Williams bands; Cook). Trinidad jazz in two styles. Just as it says on the label, Bassist Williams plays it primitive, with a trio of winds and a powerhouse rhythm section which divides itself between a two-beat Calypso and a hot-blooded shuffle entirely on the cymbals. Of special interest: the polyrhythmic Venezuelan Waltz. Drummer-Vibraphonist Clemendore plays jazz a la George Shearing and includes one hit tune, Princess Charming...
Nowadays, Trumpeters Allen and Charlie Shavers head two fulltime, six-man bands that include jazz-gifted oldtimers Clarinetist Buster Bailey, Pianist Claude Hopkins, Bassist Milt Hinton, and Trombonist "Big Chief" (350 Ibs.) Russell Moore. With the help of six other mu icians who gather in smaller combos, they play their way from a slow 3 p.m. start to a frenzied 3 a.m. finish...
...pianists trips the dark fantastic in a dozen of the best-liked Gershwin gems. There are times when the tune is hard to find, but Peterson's feeling for mood and invention never falters. In the same series and with the same fine sidemen (Guitarist Barney Kessel and Bassist Ray Brown) are LPs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin tunes...