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...boys in the band, for this Sunday, will be Charlie Vinal (clarinet), Johnny Windhurst (cornet), George Lugg (trombone,) Ev Schwarz (piano), Johnny Fields (bass), Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York...
Bobby Hackett, the well-known cornet-player, will be featured with Ivan Wain-wright's Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
...Janesville, Wis., the 74-year-old veteran re-enacted his first Salvation Army meeting, recalled with a chuckle that on his first appearance the local paper reported that "the cornet player [Commissioner Parker] was terrible." Then he went on to Elgin, Ill. for a big farewell. It was at Elgin that Parker, then a 16-year-old printer on the Elgin Daily News, first attended a Salvation Army open-air meeting, was so taken by the Salvationists' happy abandon that he joined up then & there...
After opening the program with the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner," a quartet of staff and students sang three numbers of old fashioned harmony, and Dr. Cornet led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert pianist, played two selections of a more serious nature. Lt. Tirico and Mrs. Anita Clarke Richmond each sang several selections and a duet, Lt. Tirico included a love song called "Les Trois Fils D'Or" by Colonel Fox, accompanied...
...magician, Professor Chaffee, directs the "Slide Rule Symphony" made up of his colleagues and officers from the Radar School. First debut of the orchestra was at a party last April at which the feature presentation was "Deep in the Heart of Texas" a la Chaffee. Chaffee himself plays the cornet and cello...