Word: cornetists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winthrop Junior Common Room will be the scene of the second big-time jam session held at Harvard in the last four months when Pee Wee Russell, famous hot clarinetist, Bill Davison, outstanding cornetist, and some other members of Davison's band which is now playing in Boston, come out to play from 8 to 9 o'clock tonight in a program which has been arranged and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network...
...official arrives, bent on canceling the pension check, but is so beglamored by the fey, bemused life of the household that he arranges to have the payments continued. An old laborer and the parish priest gather round for a drink and contemplation of the universe. Finally the wandering cornetist comes home and plays Wonderful One in the parlor. His father exclaims: "Polestar and pyramid, boy-play it again!" As the boy plays it again, the curtain falls...
...most trying recording session was for Eddie Cantor's Now's the Time to Fall in Love, when between the countless jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Muggsy Spanier has left Bob Crosby and will form his own band. Muggsy is a cornetist from way back, and one of the few musicians whose work has never at any time dropped below the standard of hot jazz at its finest. So whatever Muggsy does, you can count on a good job. . . Count Basic tries the experiment of a fast blues in rhumba time. It's called Volcano, and features a swell muted trumpet chorus by Harry Edison. In the ensemble, the brass section takes top honors (OKEH). . . Lionel Hampton's new sextet includes...
...Fifty-five years ago and more, the writer hereof earned his first dollar playing for dances in Butler county, a young boy in his middle teens. We make no boasts but our outfit, consisting of a blind fiddler, a competent cornetist and deponent at the cabinet organ or piano, as the case happened to be-used to go out in the country to farm dances. . . . Mostly we played square dances, though we had two or three waltzes-'The First Kiss Waltz,' 'The Cornflower Waltz,' 'The Skaters' and 'Where, Oh Where, Has My Little...