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...funny the way one musician can change the entire sound of a jazz band. Last week, before the official opening of Steve Connelly's Rathskeller, a trumpeter named Shad Collins was playing with the Vic Dickenson-Buster Bailey outfit in the little cellar in back of the Bradford. Little Shad is a former Basie star, but his playing, strangely enough, was straight from the Delta, and the group had the most authentic New Orleans sound heard in Boston for some time...
Dickenson and Bailey have been around for a long time. Trombonist Vic has developed his taste and feeling over more than a quarter-century of playing with the best in the field, and Buster has been a clarinet wizard to generations of greats and near-greats. Bailey is a grandfather now, but he can still blow a chorus that sounds as if it were some- where between Goodman and Ed Hall--with the smoothness of neither, but the imagination of both...
Turmpeter Davison, clarinetist Buster Bailey, and trombonist Vic Dickenson are all fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...
...across the bottom of an empty swimming pool. The modern Hollywood is reflected in a gallery of expertly drawn types. Actress Desmond's Hollywood of the past comes alive in the fantastic trappings of her house and in her visiting bridge companions ("the Waxworks"), played by Hollywood Oldtimers Buster Keaton, Anna Q. Nilsson and H. B. Warner...
...Boston Traveler commented in July of 1948 that "George Fingold, Assistant Attorney-General who headed the Revere scandal probe, merits commendation for public service. The racket-buster might be called a born lawyer...