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...eleven various settings (range: 300 seats to 32,000). When it was all over, more than 100,000 jazz buffs had paid a total of $500,000 to listen to a music that more than a foolish few had considered dead years ago, gone with Kid Ory, Bunny Berigan and Charlie Parker. Some, indeed, settled in for the duration, paying $122 for a ticket to all 30 events...
...says Simon, was Tommy Dorsey's orchestra. Others may have been more creative, hard-driving or distinctive, but, all around, Dorsey's band "could do more things better than any other." At one time or another, it featured such talents as Drummer Buddy Rich and Trumpeter Bunny Berigan, Singers Frank Sinatra and Jo Stafford, Arrangers Paul Weston and Sy Oliver-and, always, the warm, silken trombone of T.D. himself, from whom Sinatra learned most of what he knows about breathing and phrasing...
Jazz For People Who Hate Jazz (Victor LP). A perfectly respectable collection except for its repellent title and patronizing program notes. Includes vintage performances by Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bunny Berigan, Count Basic...
...better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...Victor, 5 vols. 45 r.p.m.). Victor's second installment of records recalling the time when bands were bands and maestros like Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Bunny Berigan were leading them...