Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirkland House. As long as the band was allowed to play what it wanted to, and to play it at a reckless volume, their music was fairly good. As soon as the house committee got on the ball and demanded "soft--and sweet," the band sounded like a bunch of highschool musicians on their first job. Moral: Don't expect soft swing or good sweet from a band unless you pay for it. . . . Dunster House decided at the last minute not to get Red Norvo for their dance on March 1, and settled on localite Buddy Trask. While Trask...
...sure that none of this money will be used in such a way as might cause injury or discomfiture to a Russian aviator flying over the working-class section of a Finnish town. ... I always try to explain this point of view without making my countrymen look like a bunch of sentimental whacks...
...contest in the northern part of California. Although the purpose of this question was to break the tie, bashful letter writers claimed other reasons. One said the answer would help him pursue his hobby, which he refused to name another claimed it would settle an argument between a "bunch of us old grads," and still another asserted he was working on a research project...
...awful sad, 'cause he was mighty sad and it seemed to him as though things could never be anything but sad. All the old bunch were leaving in a rush of stumbling footsteps as the new and fresh and clean and sober gang came in to take them home. "Well," he said, "I guess we won't ever be anything but sad. But gosh, I majored in the Crimson, and if I wasn't so drunk and pied I'd shed a tear for the Crimson." Arthur apparently can't write an editorial...
...amazing band. It builds harmonies and ideas that other bands never get near. Often the band will Improvise collectively in this same weird timbre--whereas most people think that their complicated style takes months of rehearsal on each thing. I could ramble on for pages about this bunch. Suffice it to say that practically every critic thinks they are the biggest and most important thing in jazz, and get ye down to the Southland to hear them. By the way, the Duke will be at Briggs and Briggs this afternoon at three thirty. Drop over and meet...