Word: clarinet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three solid hours it went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...
...Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...
...program will include "string Quintet in O major," "Clarinet Trio in E flat major," "Fantasy and Variations for Piano, four hands," and "Piano Quartet in E flat major...
Dickenson and Bailey have been around for a long time. Trombonist Vic has developed his taste and feeling over more than a quarter-century of playing with the best in the field, and Buster has been a clarinet wizard to generations of greats and near-greats. Bailey is a grandfather now, but he can still blow a chorus that sounds as if it were some- where between Goodman and Ed Hall--with the smoothness of neither, but the imagination of both...
...glib master of ceremonies, he gave them everything they came for and more. When he settled down to the piano, with clarinet, drums, bass fiddle and a "pleasant" string quartet behind him ("You can die in a cocktail lounge with a trio"), he showed he could just about play the pants off any pianist in town. He was a hit, all right. Like many another jazz musician, Joe, whose face has gotten harder at 33, finds that good playing is no longer enough for tapping the big money. But he says, "Playing the piano is very important to me. While...