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...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...
Candlelight (Bunny Berigan; Victor). Hitherto unrecorded Bix Beiderbecke com position, originally written for piano, played by Trumpeter Berigan and a small band. Also available are four other new recordings of Beiderbecke numbers (Flashes, In a Mist, In the Dark, Davenport Blues) by the same combination...
Harvard-Dartmouth Ball. Three famous bands--Bunny Berigan, Harry Marshard, Roy Eldridge. Continuous music--9 until...
...WEARING OF THE GREEN (Bunny Berigan; Victor). Novelty fox trot, featuring Mr. Berigan's excellent trumpet...