Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...
...Edwards, local handleader-drummer and himself a disabled vet, has contracted to play at the affair. His ten-piece band and vocalist will keynote the informal dance, scheduled to run from 8 to 12 o'clock on Patriot...
...Broadway's Iceland Restaurant a new, five-man band made its debut, under moon-faced Drummer Paul Whiteman Jr., 21-year-old son of the moon-faced "King of Jazz." Paul Jr.'s own billing: "The Crown Prince of Rhythm...
...Kansas City, put two of her songs in a Capitol Records album called History of Jazz. Disc jockeys picked Julia's record out of the album and played it more than the others, so Capitol lured Julia to Hollywood to record twelve more sides. She took her drummer, Baby Lovett, along, and on the way out they wrote a suggestive tune called Gotta Gimme Watcha Got, which sold out immediately. Some jazz critics boldly compared 44-year-old Julia Lee with the greatest blues shouter of them all, the late Bessie Smith...
...special Mary Lou Williams composition, "Lovely Lummox," the bespectacled Mr. Hall stood behind the microphone between the piano and the trumpet, his pate and fingernails vying for prominence in the brilliance of the spot light, and while the drummer's arms wildly flailed a quivering tropical tom tom, delivered himself of chorus after chorus of crying, impassioned music. He hits the notes on the edge, punching them out hoarsely and exuberantly, soaring up and down in a rapid shuffle rhythm; but the old majestic grandeur, characteristic of those of his profession who were trained where the Mississippi spills into...