Word: combo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also argue all night as to whether is a Chicago style, but Davison's six-piece combo plays differently than Scabby Lewis at the Savoy, and differently than Red Allen or Frankic Newton, whose bands were recently in Boston. They play old Dixieland tunes like "Fidgety Feet" and "Oh Baby," and blow the roof off in the process. But you don't mind the plaster falling all around you. Not when Davison plays cornet out of the side of his mouth, with's wonderful husky flavor like Berigan or Spanier. Not when PeeWee chortles his notes sometimes with an amazingly...
Career woman marries family man, sees the light, and patches up: that's a skeleton of a plot we know so well. But it's doctored up so that the career woman is Tess Hardy, a diplomat's daughter turned political columnist (sort of a combo of Dorothy Thompson and Mrs. Roosevelt all rolled into the frame of La Hepburn), and the family man is sports writer Sam Craig (better known as Spencer Tracy on M.G.M.'s payroll). Up until their wedding night, the picture hits all the heights of humor and contrast you could ask for. His friends...
...lecturing, with many an ejaculated "My God" at the sight of the monthly bills, upon the necessity of running the family on a "sound business basis." Here in truth is a one-man band playing with all the noise and car-splitting trumpet section of a high school brass combo. But there is gold beneath the brass, and father's few off-guard moments display its fine carat...
...very funny, "Square From Delaware" being a good example... Even better though is the living Bing Crosby and Jobnny Morcer do on "Mr. Meadowlark" two swell showmen... "Bye Bye Blues" by Seger Ellis ain't nothing much other way... "Tired Socks". by Johnny Hodges sounds as if the Ellington combo were a little weary when it made this...
...music of Ken Reeves and his orchestra which played from 10 o'clock until 3:30 and of Michael Levin's combo which took over until the party broke up at 5 o'clock, combined with the ten gallon punch bowl to make the party a success...