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...nightclub, and His story has never been made into a floor show-until last year in Manhattan. Since then the gospel story, sung in a spiritual called John the Revelator, has regularly evoked pin-drop silence in both downtown and uptown branches of Barney Josephson's Café Society. John the Revelator is one of the hit songs of a Negro group named the Golden Gate Quartet, whose hushed voices, to the rhythm of reverential thigh-slaps and foot-taps, make spirituals sound-in the jazzmen's phrase-out of this world. Recently a Café Societarian, Franklin...
...Washington High School, got on local radio programs even before they graduated in 1935. They had already been on records (Bluebird) and the radio before they were discovered, barnstorming the South, by crew-cropped Jazz Pundit John Hammond. He presented them to Manhattan more than a year ago, and Café Society shortly signed them. Tenor Clyde Riddick took Willie Langford's place in the quartet...
...lieutenant told him: "It is terrible here, Señor. First you must make love to this girl you want until your nose bleeds; second you must make love ... to her mother, her father, the butler, and the parrot, and in the end you must always marry her." The café society set was dull and insolent ("they all but come over to your table to read the labels on your clothes") but some of the transients were good. "Franz Josef's local grandson had some claim to authenticity: his accent was correct, he clicked his heels...
...peace-loving Norwegians the Quisling noise went unheeded because for perhaps the first time their interest was turning to guns which could be turned against Quisling and his protectors. Nazi police who hung their bayonet and pistol belts with their overcoats in cafés lost them, and Nazi soldiers mysteriously murdered at night were always found minus rifle, side arms and ammunition. Stockholm's Dagens Nyketer reported from Oslo that Nazi arms were disappearing so rapidly that it was necessary to place special guards around supply dumps and ships...
...music at uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling, inventive jazz pianist, played in his own orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus...