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...Chicago jazz style, rough, nervous, backed by a driving pulse, got its start when Austin High boys played in their gym on Friday afternoons in 1923 and 1924. One of them, the late, great Clarinetist Frank Teschmaker, taught Benny Goodman some stuff. Another, Tenor Saxophonist Bud Freeman, was one of many who later played in the Goodman band and now lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned...
...Know That You Know (Joe Marsala; Decca). The most straightforward hot clarinetist in the business and his clean little band do the honors to one of Vincent Youmans' great foxtrots. Mrs. Marsala gets off for a nice hot harp chorus...
...Clarinetist Pete Davis ' moves out of Manhattan's 46th Street into a series of low-grade dates in Pennsylvania in the early '20s, winds up with a topflight, ill-paid hot outfit in Chicago. His pianist brother Frank sticks to the seaboard; his greater talent and his tameness betray him into the venal successes of the "swing" rage. Between the two of them they cover most of the salient features of jazz and Jazz-living among white musicians. There is some sore stuff on that corrupt necessity, the musician's union, and an interesting passage about...
Coffee-colored, dead-pan John Kirby, once a trombonist and tuba player, now slaps and bows the bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer...
...players, several Cavalry officers from Fort Bliss. An Indian janitor, Chief Guadalupe Serna, a dead ringer for the brave on the buffalo nickel, plays the bull fiddle. At one time the orchestra's schedule had to be accommodated to the schedule of the Southern Pacific Railroad, because the clarinetist was a Pullman conductor. He was an absent-minded clarinetist. When the orchestra played Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, in which the clarinet roops a rooster call, he missed his cue. After the closing chord, the Pullman conductor realized his omission, leaped to his feet, played the rooster...