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Trumpet players seem to be the news this week. Harry James put out a new record, Bill Davison is playing better than ever at the Ken, and Frankie Newton is announced for the Savoy September...
...Russell, Bill Davison, and Gene Shraeder, professional jazz stars now playing at the Ken Club in Boston, livened up the first 15 minuted of the program with some old jam session favorites including "Royal Garden Blues" and "The Jazz Me Blues...
...fine form and his famous "dirty" clarinet had many of his listeners' feet tapping in time. Davison's cornet solos and Schraeder's piano barrelhouse also drew plenty of cheers from the crowd. But two Harvard musicians, Stu Grover '45, on drums, and Pamelia, whose saxophone playing George Frazier, Boston Herald swing columnist, called in "the Bud Freeman tradition," stayed right in there with them...
...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...
...have time enough to hear Davison's band at the Ken, you can judge for yourself next Wednesday night at Winthrop House, or over the Crimson Network. A jam session will be held, featuring instrumentalists around the College. Bill Davison has graciously consented to bring part of his band and play for the occasion...