Word: dixielanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch of Todd Duncan. Little Joe, the wayward, crap-shooting husband of Petunia and object of the struggle between the Lawd and the Devil, is a happy-go-lucky masterpiece in the hands of Dooley Wilson. Katherine Dunhan heats up the atmosphere with every step as Georgia Brown, a Dixieland Danger who makes Little Joe forget the Devil. When she and her troupe dance the Egyptian Ballet, stoking boilers in Hades for eternity somehow loses its force as a deterrent to forsaking the straight and narrow...
...armed jive artist Wingy Mannone cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazz Dinner For the Duchess and Wingy Mannene cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff...
...Boogie-woogie and the Blues. Present with us on this solemn occasion: Mademoiselle Dinah Diva Shore, who starts fires by rubbing two notes together; Maestro Paul Laval and his ten termite-proof wood winds; Dr. Gino Hamilton, as our chairman and intermission commentator; and Dr. Henry Levine, with his Dixieland Little Symphony of eight men and no-Period. As the Society's special guest: Professor Louis Kievman, the long-haired musician who plays a bald-headed viola. . . . But the concert is now in progress...
...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street-named after a famed street in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz-is devoted to two kinds of music, traditional "Dixieland" and modern hot. Trumpeter Henry Levine, who succeeded Nick La Rocca in the fabulous Original Dixieland Jazz Band of two decades ago, handles the New Orleans tunes, with his mostly brass octet. Paul Laval, an Italo-Frenchman (born Joseph Usifer), plays clarinet and saxophone-his occasional saxophone work with the NBC Symphony has earned Toscanini's bravos-and leads the ten wood winds in his own hot arrangements. Guests have included...
...sense that they were good men and will be hard to replace, but it was good in a way because all the men came from well-organized and (mostly) Dixieland bands--which meant so far, Jack hadn't been able to develop any distinctive style...