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...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...
Died. Thomas F. Dorsey Sr., 70, music teacher and school bandmaster, father of famed Swingsters Tommy (trombone) and Jimmy (sax & clarinet); in Philadelphia. He started giving his sons woodwind lessons when they were little boys...
...interesting things to say on their little instruments; and there were Max Kaminsky, the stubby trumpet player who is right in his element in front of a small band, and semi-legendary Peewee Russell, who painfully extorted a half-hour's worth of intoxicated notes from his ram-shackle clarinet, after playing most of the afternoon at the Ken's rival session. Peewee hadn't been too exciting at the Ken, I understand--something about the other men not playing in the right key. But with his colleague Kaminsky to kid him along he gave of his knocked-out best...
...inventor is dark-goateed John W. Haussermann Jr., 32 (whose father, a wealthy Cincinnatian, owns three Philippine gold mines). The most commonly used solo instruments in concertos are the piano, violin and cello, and concertos have been written for other instruments: clarinet, horn, saxophone, even the double-bass. For the voice, composers have written vocalises (wordless songs), have included wordless voice parts in orchestral works, but hitherto have not essayed an out-&-out concerto...