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...typical show, recorded on tape in Washington to broadcast from ten Voice stations a month later, includes such diverse items as Count Basie's swinging Straight Life, Joe Newman's Midgets, Charlie Parker's Air Conditioning, the Modern Jazz Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly...
Died. Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, seventyish, oldtime hot trumpeter of New Orleans jazz, best loved in his home town of all the great Negro jazz musicians; of cancer; in New Orleans. At Papa's funeral, more than a thousand friends and ad mirers turned out while two bands of fellow jazzmen played dirges in the two-mile procession to the church...
...years of jazz, Papa Celestin has learned to play what his audiences like-"Loud," he says. That's not too hard, since that style makes him happy: "When I get warm and my lips are right, the music comes pouring...
...usual, at this week's performance, Papa Celestin was blowing Dixieland hot and strong. Sometimes it was St. Louis Blues. Other times it was Muskrat Ramble, When the Saints Go Marching In, High Society, or one of the other old standbys. The blues were played as blues, the marches as marches. The fans kept yelling for more...
...Papa called for those who first danced to his music 20 years ago. Many stood. Across three, four and finally five decades, Papa carried his question. And even at the last, a few oldtimers stood. That kind of reminder took the edge off the fact that outside Louisiana, Papa Celestin is not well known...