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Orchids, or some such Winchellian device are certainly due trumpet man Bunny Berigan this week at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick. The guy was still suffering from an attack of arthritis which had hospitalized him for some time in New York when he played opening night...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 1/19/1940 | See Source »

Things are certainly swingteresting this month in old Beantown. Bunny Berigan opens Monday at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick with his full band and Kay Doyle as vocalist, and Duke Ellington is at the Southland. Berigan's trumpet playing is always worth hearing, and this band is supposed to be pretty good...

Author: By Michael Levin, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON.) | Title: SWING | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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