Word: blanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Using the same lineup of Jack Butler (trumpet), George Lugg (trombone), Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet), Jack Bland (guitar), and Kaiser Marshall (drums), pianist Hodes gave the Harvard jazz fans three solid hours of improvisation such as one can't buy for love, money, or ration points around Boston. Once again the highlight of the session was a splendid version of the blues, featuring Jack Butler singing his own lyrics and then leading the band out on a series of ensemble choruses which were so superb as to overshadow everything else heard during the afternoon...
Home last week from a 20,000-mile jaunt through the U.S., South America and England, bland, bulky Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s big-framed president, was chock full of war and postwar plans. Said...
Holy Matrimony (20th Century-Fox) unites that bland bully Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) and British Singer Grade Fields, results in a bouncing comedy. The fun revolves around a corpse. When his valet (Eric Blore) dies, great British Painter Priam Farll (Monty Woolley) has the body buried in Westminster Abbey...
...played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member of the original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session. But whether or not you play, you shouldn't miss this. There...
...Bland was a member of the original mind City Blue Blowers whose records sold in the millions, and Mezzrow and Lugg were in the ill-fated band which Mezz started in the fall of 1937 at the Uproar House in New York--the only full-sized mixed dance band ever to work regularly at a night club. There were six Negroes and seven white musicians in that group, but the club was padlocked over an irregularity in the liquor license, and the band had to break up, never to reform...