Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drummer...
Died. Annie Knight Gregory, 100, "last true Daughter of the American Revolution" (her father was one of George Washington's drummer boys at Valley Forge); in Williamsport...
...that the Art Hodes band, which S/Sgt. George Avakian raved about in this column two weeks ago, will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler...
...more nervous heroes of hot jazz, Gene Krupa, went to California's San Quentin Prison this week to serve a sentence of one to six years. Drummer Krupa had been sentenced on two counts. The first was a felony: employing a minor, one John Pateakos, to transport narcotics. The second and lesser count was a misdemeanor: possession of the drug marijuana, a violation which, if it could be universally detected, would land a great many jazz musicians behind prison bars. It is no secret that some of the finest flights of American syncopation, like some of the finest products...
...friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues singer, Mildred Bailey...