Word: cornetist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation . . . We are musical anarchists." Thus Cornetist Nick LaRocca defined the new music he and other members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band had played at Reisen-weber's restaurant in Manhattan during World War I. When word about the shocking doings at Reisenweber's got to the Victor Talking Machine Co., the Dix-Jelanders were asked to come up and cut two sides. They blared two of their liveliest numbers-Livery Stable Blues and Dixie Jazz Band One-Step-into an eightinch acoustical horn, and thus became...
...shoebox lunches and tank-town audiences. To him, it was a school of inventive self-reliance peopled with lovable oddballs. A gaudy branch of human botany, vaudeville finds in Fred Allen an affectionate and scrupulous botanist who cherishes every last contortionist, hypnotist, iron-jawed lady, human xylophone, one-armed cornetist, rube comedian, Hindu conjurer and clay modeler who ever played a split week east of Lompo,. Calif. or west of Maiden, Mass...
...Voice stations a month later, includes such diverse items as Count Basie's swinging Straight Life, Joe Newman's Midgets, Charlie Parker's Air Conditioning, the Modern Jazz Quartet's Django, oldtime Trumpeter Papa Celestin's When the Saints Go Marching In, legendary Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke's Singin' the Blues, and a rousing number called I'm All Bound 'Round with the Mason Dixon Line, by the day's interviewee, Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland. Between numbers, Conover quietly and succinctly tells about the next record or gently nudges his guest...
...stayed on in Florence to become the world's foremost authority on Renaissance art.) At the turn of the century, Mrs. Jack started construction of an Italian palace in the marshes on the outskirts of Boston. Already in her 60s, she joined workmen on the job, employed a cornetist to summon her foremen for conferences...
Strike Up the Band (Marion MacPartland; Savoy). The British-born wife of Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland plays along clean, classical lines, with idiomatic jazz style, moments of wig-flipping rhythm...