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...Manhattan, after 21 months of his sixth marriage (to Novelist Kathleen Winsor) and two noisy weeks of charges & countercharges, an idea occurred to Clarinetist Artie Shaw: "It's gotten so you've even got to be awfully careful of the kind of girl you go out with these days...
...sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With...
...jazzbos - Satchmo, Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing." Shy, sandy-haired Clarinetist...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Pianist Earl Hines, Drummer Sid Catlett, Bull Fiddler Arvell Shaw...
Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet & Strings, K. 581 (Reginald Kell, clarinetist, with the Philharmonia String Quartet; Columbia, 8 sides). Kell, playing one of Mozart's most winning chamber masterpieces, does better with it than Benny Goodman. Recording: good...