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...make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully. All of them now make their bow to Louis. Says Drummer Krupa: "No band musician today on any instrument, jazz, sweet, or bebop, can get through 32 bars without musically admitting his debt to Armstrong. Louis did it all, and he did it first...
...playing to dine & dance audiences of 1,000 a night last week in Vancouver, B.C. Most of his band, like Armstrong, had been musically famous for more than two decades, though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
Since it was first formed in 1924 by a handful of party stalwarts in Chicago, the Worker has had a rocky history; its first editor was Party Philosopher J. Louis Engdahl, and its first circulation-drummer, Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor. In 1926, the Worker moved to Manhattan, switched quarters twice before it settled down on the eighth floor of a dingy building on Twelfth Street, two blocks from Union Square. It started printing on used presses bought cheaply from its archenemy, the Wall Street Journal...
Died. Davis ("Dave") Tough, 41, famed, pint-sized (5 ft.) jazz drummer (a "Chicago style" pioneer, he had played with Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Artie Shaw); of a fractured skull, suffered when he fell on the street; in Newark...
...foreigner," Psychiatrist Menninger is a big (6 ft. 1 in., 189 lbs.), friendly "nice guy." He is genuinely modest about holding practically all the top posts in his profession ("They shoved me up there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost it moving from Washington to Topeka after...