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Stern Stereotype. The saps are in full flood among the situation comedies too. Most cynical confection of the season is The Flying Nun (ABC), a mating of The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins. Cutesy Star Sally Field, 21, plays a swinging nun whose starchy cornet launches her airborne in the wind cur rents around her Puerto Rican convent. Naturally, her antics appall the stern, stereotyped mother superior, but Sister Sally manages endless good works and bad gags, such as a crash landing in an Army garbage dump...
novice nun who discovers that her wing-shaped cornet, mirabile dictu, is a perfect airfoil. The show will be cut to half an hour once Sister Bertrille gets airborne...
...never tried to alter his style to serve fashion. Hines's playing today, save for a heightened sense of surprise, is practically the same as it was when he came out of Pittsburgh as the most original jazz pianist around. His own father had played the cornet, and Earl adapted its lusty, brassy quality to the keyboard, learned to chop out big, gaudy chords in order to be heard through a blaring orchestra. The technique was further refined when he teamed with Louis Armstrong in 1928 for a memorable series of recordings. Recalls Hines: "I wanted to play like...
...Louis came back to his home town on Louis Armstrong Day to play a benefit concert for the New Orleans Jazz Museum. "I used to stand on the corners and play until the cops came along and ran us away," recalled' Louis, fingering the cornet he first learned to toot 52 years ago at the old Waifs Home. Then he grinned at Peter Davis, 87, the man who taught him to play it. Said Satch: "You sure taught us the rudimentals...
...Silver Cornet Band Summer School in a Yard concert...