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...Eastern cities and towns last week, jitterbugs by the thousand laid their dollars on the line to hear a new dance band. The band belonged to dark, dapper, moody Clarinetist Artie Shaw, who two years ago pronounced his jitterbug followers morons, declared that the music business stinks, and, consigning the whole shebang to hell, left his band, got out of his contracts, went off to Mexico...
...past year and a half, Clarinetist Shaw has gone through his third marriage and divorce (to & from Cinemactress Lana Turner) and returned to music. Impatient, inquisitive, he brooded over the idea of a big band with which he could play concert jazz. The band he led last week represents a compromise. Among its 32 pieces are 15 strings, which play straight for Shaw's featured hot soloists-best-known: Negro Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Paige, Saxophonist Les Robinson, Trumpeter Max Kaminsky, Drummer Dave Tough...
American Works for Solo Wind Instruments and String Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson, with Flutist Joseph Mariano, Oboist Robert Sprenkle, Bassoonist Vincent Pezzi, Clarinetist Rufus Arey; Victor; four sides). These works, by three teachers and a recent graduate of the nourishing Eastman School of Music, are easy to hear. Wayne Barlow's oboe rhapsody, The Winter's Past, says its piece most persuasively. Others: Serenade (clarinet) by Homer Keller; American Dance (bassoon) by Burrill Phillips; Soliloquy (flute) by Bernard Rogers...
...looked on from the sidelines. Zipper rehearses his men for 90 hours before each concert, sometimes has to teach them how to play their parts. But he claims that his musicians can grasp a trick of technique quicker than many a more thoroughly trained Occidental. Says he: "My first clarinetist could play with any orchestra in the world...
Last week Benny Goodman, before departing for Chicago, attracted 10,000 people to Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell for the concert José Iturbí refused to conduct (TIME, July 7). Clarinetist Goodman not only rippled through the Mozart concerto, with Edwin McArthur conducting, but he waved a stick-a pencil-over the Philadelphia Orchestra in the première of a Tango by Stravinsky. Drawled Benny later: "I felt kinda funny...