Word: doodletown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drum, jangled some bells on the way, hammered a xylophone and, with evident pleasure, whammed a huge Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them up again, the second piccolo had switched to tenor sax, quickly moved on to flute, then back to piccolo...
Think! is a lusty, swinging tune; Doodletown Fifers mixes pixy tootlings with brassy blasts. Some of it may sound contrived, but the overall effect is alert, bright...