Word: berigan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wants to know just how in the blue blazes we are going to be three places at once tonight; but somehow it's going to have to be done. Van Alexander is at the Adams House dance, Bob Crosby at the Harvard-Dartmouth Ballroom at the Somerset, and Bunny Berigan is at the Southland--each one worth hearing...
...future of swing in Boston looks very bright these days with Bob Crosby coming in for the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball at the Somerset on October 27 and Bunny Berigan camping down at the Southland starting next Monday...
Bunny has been called "the greatest of the whit trumpeters." And there are many that consider him to be better than even the immortal Louis Armstrong. Be this as it may, the point remains that Mr. Berigan can play some very good trumpet when he gets around to it, best examples being his theme "I Can't Get Started" and his solo on the famous Benny Goodman record of "King Porter Stomp...
...things were much better, the band displaying an indifferent Goodman style sweet. However, on the so-called "killer-diller" stuff, not even the rankest jitterbug could find much satisfaction with Mr. James playing such tricks as using the beginning of "Bach Goes To Town" and most of the famous Berigan chorus from the Benny Goodman record on "King Porter Stomp" . . . Rumor's flying around that Stan Brown's Gold Coast Orchestra may appear on Benny Goodman's Camel Hour program in June. And that the King of Swing will be given a royal welcome at Widener Library when he arrives...
...musical influence goes, every trumpet player in the country copies Louis to some extent. The best "solo" Harry James ever played, "Just a Mood" was lifted note for note from one of the old Louis records. Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, and the whole crowd not only copy his ideas, but try unsuccessfully to imitate his phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons...