Word: dorsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...
...HENRY W. DORSEY New Orleans...
...bands used to take their personality from the improvisations of the front men -Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, et al.-and the orchestrations had only to fit into the leader's style. Nowadays, most bands get their special character from the arranger's musical personality, and the musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan...
...symphonic" bands were the rage. Napoleon organized one of his own. Among its 15 members were Glenn Miller, Russ Morgan, Joe Venuti, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw. It anticipated the age of swing by half a dozen years, but never caught on outside of Brooklyn. Phil Napoleon left the jazz business and became a trumpeter-of-all-work at N.B.C. There, for 22 years, he played "Stravinsky one hour, soap opera the next." Finally he decided he was ready to quit playing...
...Anderson, rugged midfielder, tallied 16 goals, exceptionally high for a muddiner. Anderson finished third in the seeing race, with 19 points. Another middiner fielder, Pete Palches, with 11 points, was the only other Yardling to top ten. FRESHMAN LACROSSK SCORING G A TP Dorsey 22 8 30 Whedon 18 11 29 Anderson 16 3 19 Taylor 3 13 16 Palches 6 5 11 Brown 4 0 4 Foster 2 2 4 Nef 1 3 4 Law 2 1 3 Smyth 2 0 2 Bernat 1 0 1 Crump...