Word: bix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schedule is again pretty slack for the week with Princeton being slated to play Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in the only League game. Bix Six in League Player AB R H Ave. Polzer, Cor. 42 10 19 .452 Hill, P. 31 4 14 .452 Lupien, H. 37 9 16 .432 Bowen, Cor. 28 5 12 .429 Besse, Y. 27 2 11 .407 Trexler...
...tell you the name of the outfit in a few weeks" . . . Ha! Kemp's record of "Blue Moonlight" (Victor), a concert jazz extract like "Deep Purple," is one of the best the band has done in a long while . . . Contrary to general reports, Jack Harlow's ('41) imitation of Bix Beiderbecke at the Sanders Theater Tuesday evening was very well done. Considering the handicaps under which the band was working, the evening was a success . . . Harry James starts half way through "One O'Clock Jump," and ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly...
John Bragg '41 almost succeeded in copying Frankie Trambauer's alto sax solo on "singing the Blues" but lost himself half way through. Jack Harlow fared better with Bix's trumpet solo, only to mar an otherwise good performance with a cloudy tone, not at all representative of Beiderbecks...
...Bix Beiderbecke, Bob Crosby, Art Shaw, and Benny Goodman are among those whose styles will be "illustrated" on the boards where Serge Koussevitzky is wont to tread. Part of the program will be devoted to original compositions by William Whitcraft '39 in the style of Count Basie and Duke Ellington...
...Cats, exponents of a modernized Dixieland Style, are well-regarded by discerning swing fans. Another potential champion is the band headed by diminutive Bobby Hackett, whose graceful, sure trumpet, as well as his down-the-middle hair-comb and tiny mustache, is reminiscent of the late great Bix Beiderbecke...