Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swung the Bard himself. Last week at Radio City's huge Center Theatre it swung him high & wide, turning A Midsummer-Night's Dream into a lavish jitterbug extravaganza. Shifting the scene from Athens to New Orleans around 1890 ("At the Birth of Swing"), it displayed clarinet-tooting Benny Goodman, trumpet-blowing Louis Armstrong, soft-voiced Maxine Sullivan, Walt Disneyish scenery, scraps of Mendelssohn's famed Midsummer-Night's Dream music, hit tunes in swingtime, half-a-dozen singing and dancing troupes...
Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2 (Los Angeles Wind Quintet; Columbia: 4 sides). Kulturbolschewik Hindemith, in one of his earlier and lighter moods, wrote two ironic little suites for small ensembles, called them "Little Chamber Music, No. 1 and 2." No. 2, for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, is deftly tootled by a new group of Holly-woodmen...
...Sanders Theater. Between ourselves, it wasn't too good. In fact, it was even less. But shortly thereafter, the outfit was completely reorganized and enlarged. So vast was the change that when Benny Goodman auditioned the band "sat-in" and played with them for fifteen minutes, breaking the clarinet player's reed in the process. And shortly thereafter, Fitch Band Wagon evinced considerable interest in having them on their program sometime during the year...
...when they start at Dunster on the 11th, you'll really hear some good jazz. "Uncle" Bill Whitcraft on piano, Johnny Harlow (trumpet), Hal Jacobs on clarinet, George Olson on drums, and Mike Siegel on tenor sax manage to turn out some solos that are good enough for anybody's wing. Stan does the sweet vocals, and odes a good imitation of the Jack Leonard style of singing. Fem vocalist Dorothy Sinatra, sister of Harry James'vocalist, does even better...
...miss hearing Crosby play some slow blues. They are really something. Irving, Fazola, the clarinet player, has a blues tone which is so full and clear that Mr. Goodman just shuts up when anybody mentions his name. Jesse Stacy, Goodman's old piano man, is with the band, and he alone is worth the trip down there. The rest of the band--the trick stuff of drummer Ray Baudue and bassist Bobby Haggert, you probably know about already, so there isn't any need to review it. Incidentally, the latter is the author of the very popular "What...