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...rest of the band is made up of Johnny Windhurst, the sensational 17-year-old cornetist from New York who has moved to South Weymouth after a brief visit to Boston earlier this winter (an example of how a sincere mutual interest can draw people together in nothing flat), Evan Schwarz on piano, and George Ohlson on drums...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 2/8/1944 | See Source »

Frankie Trumbauer, famed hot-saxophoning crony of the late great cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, was a new test pilot at a Kansas City plane plant-putting B-25s through their first aerial paces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

Sponsors of these jazz concerts are a group of Lowell House undergraduates headed by Charles Kallman '47. The next session is planned for September 11 and will feature Wild Bill Davison, Chicago cornetist, and Georgie Auld, well known tenor saxophonist...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

...LeCorbeiller has arranged a special band-pass filter for his cello and is planning to produce sounds never before heard by the human ear. Manager and Cornetist Schwetman has announced that Dr. Tatum is in his best saxophone trim minority plebiscite...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

...Nichols album is astonishly good. A lot of people, including myself, have decried Nichols in comparison with his fellow-cornetist, Bix Beiderbecke, but in the company of such stars as Goodman, Teagarden, Krupa, etc., he plays above himself. There's still a lot of repression and self-consciousness, but there's also a good beat and a few good ideas. I wouldn't dare play Teschemacher's "China Boy" afterward, but the album is full of good, ripe jazz...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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