Word: cornet
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With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King...
Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
...room and down the halls at New Orleans' Ochsner Medical Center last week sounded like an import of old-time Chicago jazz, played from the heart. It was. Francis ("Muggsy") Spanier, 58, was in the room, flat on his back, swathed in surgical drapes, holding up a borrowed cornet with his free right hand as he launched, predictably, into St. Louis Blues. Next came a more or less reverent When the Saints Go Marching In, and then a throbbing medley of old familiar blues...
Spanier's return to New Orleans was something of a sentimental journey. Dr. Alton Ochsner Sr. operated on him in 1939 for a perforated ulcer. He then gave a cornet to Alton Ochsner Jr. It was Muggsy's own idea to go back to New Orleans recently, when he was still suffering from the effects of a collapse last summer in Detroit. The diagnosis: acute pulmonary congestion, though he may also have some emphysema (see preceding story). It was his idea to play a cornet for the test-the cornet he had given to young Alton...
...undergraduate, Kennedy played a Dixieland jazz cornet and for a time considered entering the musical profession...