Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rivals Krupa's in its crystal clarity, it seems to me after hearing him not only with Bradley but with the Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...
...that had some good ideas, well executed. "Slow Freight" is back in the same old disappointing style, however... Les Brown, back on the label he started out to record for (Decca), finally has a band that is mature enough to attempt things beyond seeing how many high Cs the brass section can play. "Comanche War Dance" is a very creditable version of the Ray Noble tune, and "Walkin' and Swingin'" is an excellent job on the Mary Lou Williams original. Plano and ensemble are particularly good...
...steer among the day's warm welcomes was recorded. A New York Harvard man, sitting in his officer near Grand Central Station, heard a brass band blaring forth Harvard airs outside his window. He hurried down to the station to join in what he thought was a welcoming demonstration and found that the band was representing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Why they were playing Harvard songs was not revealed...
...from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know, said Laborite Ellen Wilkinson, how Hitler could seize Norway "with 1,500 men and three brass bands...
...threats, sometimes to propaganda and showmanship. Playing the game, Japan and Sweden both sent photographs to the U. S. last week. Japan's contribution: a picture of Crown Prince Akihito, 6, traipsing off to the Peers' School, wearing his navy blue uniform and a cap with brass cherry blossoms, carrying the grandson of Heaven's schoolbooks. Sweden's contribution: a picture of Swedish Princesses Désirée, Margaretha, and Birgitta (daughters of Prince Gustaf Adolf, granddaughters of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, great-granddaughters of King Gustaf), chirping merrily at a tea party, blissfully untroubled...