Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a quarter Wednesday evening, the Winthrop Junior Common room was the scene of a spirited jam session and swing contest attended by close to 500 people, and at the end of the contest Freshman Joe Pamelia, tenor saxophone and clarinet player, was chosen Harvard's outstanding swingster...
...fine form and his famous "dirty" clarinet had many of his listeners' feet tapping in time. Davison's cornet solos and Schraeder's piano barrelhouse also drew plenty of cheers from the crowd. But two Harvard musicians, Stu Grover '45, on drums, and Pamelia, whose saxophone playing George Frazier, Boston Herald swing columnist, called in "the Bud Freeman tradition," stayed right in there with them...
After they left, the rest of the College musicians took up the beat and played until after nine o'clock. Paul Stein '44 was at the piano, ed hunt '43, and George Springer '42 were playing trumpets, Frank Lawler '44 was on clarinet...
...newcomer, Joe Pamelia '46, is rated highly on the clarinet and tenor sax and another new addition to the amateur players is Steve Taylor, a summer School student from Cornell who plays the trombone...
...great experience in life. Even if you don't like jazz, even if you think Glenn Miller is the greatest thing on earth, it is worth your precious while to spend an evening listening to Russell. For PeeWee is a real character. Not an Artier Shaw who points his clarinet way up high to impress crowds, but a PeeWee Russell who leans way back and closes his eyes because he can play better that...