Word: brassiered
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Almost a decade has passed since Sidney Bechet replaced Louis Armstrong as the unquestioned King of Jazz. Bechet is a complete original. He invented his own instrument, the soprano saxophone, a metal clarinet which is both reedier and brassier than the wooden version. With it he produces soaring, melodious, and fanciful clarinet passeges; deep, throaty, and emotional "trombone" interjections; and the clear, fiercely driving attack associated with the trumpet. Usually he does all at once, with a tone so magnificent one feels he could drive a truck down it and with such imagination and variety that one actually...
...Reds have been whacked down harder than ever recently. Actually, the party seems to have made little progress since war's end. But the Reds were still trying harder than ever. On May 1 their weekly paper, the Canadian Tribune, will become a daily to give them a brassier horn for propaganda in Canada...