Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's summer Band Camp at Antioch, Ill., Drummer Burtenshaw was awakened one morning this week by a serenade of his favorite band tunes. From then on it was Brigadier Burtenshaw Day. Highlight: a concert featuring his famed bass-drum solo to the Army tune, Carry On (he has given it 6,000 times, in every part of the U. S.). Said one critic: "It is the first time I have heard a drum played as a musical instrument." Said the Brigadier with pious pride: "Well, I guess I'm just about the best there...
Proving something or other, this reviewer made an auditional recording a short time ago. In the band on the record was drummer Freddy Moynahan of Boston. He didn't sound too sharp and most of the men on the job kidded him about his playing . . . So word back from Chicago says that he is now Bud Freeman's drummer and is hailed as a sensation . . . Rumor has it that Benny Goodman is going to release drummer Fatool, that he traded punches with "Handy" Stokowski, and that he is going to make records with Fred Astaire...
...brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...
...keep calm." He yelled and brandished his baton at the Creolians, trying to keep them playing on the platform. The dancers did not keep calm. They pressed toward the narrow door. It jammed. They dashed to the rear of the hall, and the boarded-up windows. Drummer Oscar Brown always carries a hammer to nail his drums to the floor; he hammered his way through a boarded window. A few followed...
Cozy is a marvelous drummer, noted especially for his amazingly powerful press roll, that being a steady roll gotten by sticks on a snare drum, with a snap that gives it a swell lift. Listen to records like "Ratamacue" and "Crescendo in Drums" by Cab on Vocalion or "Shufflin' at The Hollywood" (Victor-Lionel Hampden) and you'll get the general idea...