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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...
...They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...
Soriano's polar opposite in Manila is stocky, cleft-chinned Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...