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There are a few really good but long lost Johnny Dodds renditions on Paramount which have just been figs, the Century company. They include "Weary Way Blues" and "Sock That Thing" by the Dixieland Tub Thumpers. Those who fall into the class of D-L thumpers according to Hot Discography are Dodds, N. Dominique, J. Blythe and an unknown virtuoso on the washboard. The Century Company has also reissued a trombone solo by the Rogers under the biological title, "It Hurts So Good." They enclose free with every C.O.D. order a cheery letter promising to reissue a Jelly Roll Morton...
Crosby's Conversion. Ever since swing began, show business tipsters (and press-agents for sweet bands) had predicted its death with monotonous regularity, but none of the swingsters had paid attention before. Now the No. 1 exponent of pseudo-Dixieland, Bob Crosby (brother of Bing) was packing them in at a Broadway theater with a toned-down band that went easier on the drums and the brass. Crosby late of the U.S. Marines, learned his lesson when leading a service band on Bougainville. He expected the Marines to demand music with hair on its chest. Says he: "They wanted...
...Francisco, the fans gather in the dark Dawn Club, in an Annie Street cellar, to hear the unmuted two-beat Dixieland rhythms of a band that is neither Negro nor old. The eight musicians of Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band average 30 years in age, but they serve such standbys as Ostrich Walk and High Society, along with new ones of their own New Orleans style. The college students, sailors, socialites and nostalgic oldtimers who pack the joint don't come to sit and listen. Their dancing rocks the floor like an old-fashioned firemen...
Identifying any variety of modern hot music as New Orleans white would be a tough job. "Dixieland," as played by Bob Crosby's boys and the Dorsey Clambake Seven contained a few of the ingredients, but the last thirty years have done something to the main features that distinguished the old N.O.W. men. Compare some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick...
...jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town to cover what...