Word: clarinet
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This is my problem. I'm the mother, sister, companion, nursemaid, sparring partner and wife of a jazz clarinet. Should I continue to live with this sink of iniquity and listen to his lousy rendition of Baby, Won't You Please etc. or should I divorce him, marry a shoe salesman or magazine writer, and listen to Sweet Adeline...
...rest of the band includes Mezz Mezzrow (clarinet), Jack Bland (guitar), George Lugg (trombone), and of course Hodes at the keys. It is interesting to note that all are veteran Chicagoans of the old school (Mezzrow, who was the original ringleader of that crowd, is now pressing 44 but still plays that highly controversial clarinet as agilely as he did 20 years...
...Saturday night. The weather was lovely . . . The moon was beautiful . . . Feminine beauty radiated over the ball room and the music by Ruby Newman's band was in the groove. The party, especially enjoyed the smooth and hot licks on the trumpet by Murray. Griffin gliding into ecstasy on his clarinet kept everyone in a mellow mood...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...
...Thomas married after his Idaho divorce, is a blue-eyed, 34-year-old British pianist named Betty Humby who has often appeared on her husband's programs. Current apple of Sir Thomas' eye is her eleven-year-old son by a previous marriage. He plays the clarinet in the Deerfield (Mass.) Academy band...