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...Diggin' at Dunster...
...Freddie Greene, guitar; Walter Page, bass; Jo Jones, drums; Prestige). "Count don't play nothin'," said a Basie veteran once, "but it sure sounds good." This nostalgic album is a fine reminder of what that line meant. The selection of five Basie classics (including Texas Shuffle and Diggin' for Dex) is taken from the period 1937 to 1941 and played by three veterans of the Basie rhythm section...
...square in 3-D (cube that is) diggin' Pete Candoli blowing clarinet on Hey, Bellboy! platter [July 27] review? Tha's a trumpet...
...bustle and interesting activity in and around the Harvard "quarters." A favorite pastime consisted in riding along the banks of the River Thames in order to catch the "time" of the Yale crews during their near at hand. Your correspondent was much at home in these "diggin's and doings" (every time I get a good start to write, I'm summoned by a nurse to be X-rayed, to have a needle injected into my arm, or to have my leg pulled on the first floor), having the previous year been captain of the freshman crew in which, believe...
...that you'll wake up as white folks on Resurrection Day. Let me straighten you out on that right now. If you plant an Irish pertater, you don't get no sweet pertater vine. When God plants a colored boy, he ain't countin' on diggin' up a white feller...