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...roona bits and pieces of When You Wore a Tulip or The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise were audible.* On the street outside the hotel, quartets with such names as the Agriculturalists (who dress in overalls, bandannas, straw hats) from Wisconsin, or the Clef Chefs (chef's aprons and hats) from Indiana, gathered at a street lamp decorated with peppermint-stick paper and gave out with Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie or Let the Rest of the World...
More recent jazz styles appear on Norman Granz's Clef label, the best of them in Count Basie Big Band, one of the two or three full-size bands that still remember how to play with true jazz feeling, and the Lionel Hampton Quartet, in four long selections (including a razzle-dazzle chase chorus between Hampton's vibraharp and Oscar Peterson's piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio...
...assuming that the artist intended the music to be in the bass clef, and he should have marked the key signature...
...musical background to Jack Webb's picture on TIME'S cover ... is decidedly clever but proves once more that few artists know how to read notes. Assuming that the notation of the "dum du dum dum" theme is in the bass clef (which is not indicated), the tones would be in major key instead of the intended minor, unless a flat sign were placed in front of the note B. It would have been quite easy to get along without any such "accidental" by simply putting the theme into the key of A minor instead of G minor...
Dizzie Gillespie with Strings (Clef LP). Bop Trumpeter Gillespie, backed by the Paris Opera-Comique Orchestra, plays with appealing simplicity and delivers some startling riffs, but is given a poor recording...