Word: braff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...
Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell's own Bouquet...
Jimmy Wood, the house bass man and Jo Jones at the traps are both fine rhythm men who got a bit on their own when the spirit moves them. These three provide a strong beat for the smooth trumpet work of Ruby Braff...