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...Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity in the insolent whines of Johnny Hodges' sax on Ballad of the Flying Saucers, the staccato bleats of Trumpeter Ray Nance on Hey, Buddy Bolden...
...Last, Clicks. When Edward Ellington was born in Washington, D.C. in 1899, the capital was jigging to the insolent rhythms of ragtime pianists. Farther west Buddy Bolden's fabulous cornet was shaking New Orleans' levees, and such young idolaters as Joe ("King") Oliver and Sidney Bechet were soon to hammer out the rudiments of instrumental jazz. Washington jazz tended to strings-pianos, banjos, violins-but it had the same ancestry: the sophisticated rhythms of African drums, which later took on a more succinct and sensuous character as they drifted through the Caribbean islands, gradually infiltrated...
...things warmed up, he raps out either Shake a Hand (everybody shakes a hand) or an insistent Kiss Your Baby (if there is no one to kiss unescorted women, a waiter may do the honors). Other numbers include such oldtime favorites as I Thought I Heard Benny Bolden Say, Trees, Memphis Blues, Basin Street...
Inside Dope. In Lancaster, Pa., Stella Coffey, 13, was hospitalized after she took 15 pills to stay awake for an all-night session reading comic books. In Memphis, police charged Alonzo Bolden, Willis Rule and Alfred McMullen with the theft of 5,500,000 aspirin tablets ($25,000 worth...
Died. William ("Bunk") Johnson, 69, Negro jazzmaster of the cornet, last famed survivor of Buddy Bolden's New Orleans jazz band and musical ancestor of Louis ("Satch'mo") Armstrong; in New Iberia...