Word: butlering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member of the original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session...
Wrote William Butler Yeats of Dublin after the Easter Rising...
...William Hyde Wollaston (discoverer of the elements palladium and rhodium), a silent, austere recluse, once had a visitor who asked to see his laboratory. Wollaston rang for his butler, had his "laboratory" wheeled in on a tea tray...
...colored musicians are Jack Butler a Martinique Negro who played trumpet all over western Europe until 1940, when the Nazis, chased him to Canada, and William Jines, a youngster from Harlem who just joined the union as a drummer...
...Butler who obviously follows the commendable pattern of Louis Armstrong's 1930-1931 Okeh recordings, draws more applause with his vocal and instrumental work during the floor show than any of the regular acts. (Oh, yes--the Hofbrau is a converted theatre and the floor show starts around...