Word: dixieland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back down to the Pied Piper, where Maxie Kaminsky, Jimmy Johnson, Willie Smith, et al, still play the best Dixieland in the City and pack the bistro nightly ... Frankie Newton was bending an elbow at the bar and we adjourned to his apartment to admire his paintings ... No kidding, Frankie is doing some fine stuff and the Southern Comfort was fine... Newt has left George's but plays every Tuesday at the Pied Piper...
...White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under the guiding hand of George Avakian, he gathered together his own Dixieland Band which was featured at Harvard Jazz Club sessions and early opened at a Boston night club...
What will happen to New England's only dixieland jazz band remains in doubt. The members of the band and its backers feel the cancellation keenly, but the departure of two of the sponsors is definitely scheduled for three weeks hence, and so the future of a "strictly jazz" night club in Boston seems grim...
...Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel is reopening Friday night with Charlie Vinal's Rhythm Kings, the only dixieland jazz band in eNw England. The venture is being backed by Dick Schmidt of Milton and two Harvard servicemen who hope that Army, Navy, and Marine students stationed around the campus will drop in, if only to be helpful...
...artistic investment. Many folks around town have volunteered their services in putting the band across--John Bergen, Cambridge artist, has begun a series of cards to be placed at the tables as part of a promotional scheme aimed at people who aren't quite sure of what dixieland jazz is all about...