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...band with which he could play concert jazz. The band he led last week represents a compromise. Among its 32 pieces are 15 strings, which play straight for Shaw's featured hot soloists-best-known: Negro Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Paige, Saxophonist Les Robinson, Trumpeter Max Kaminsky, Drummer Dave Tough...
...connection has often been suggested between his luster and the fact that his sister had just married Capitaine de Vaisseau Keraudren, then Aide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic. At school Darlan's wild arm-waving while he talked earned him the nickname "The Bass Drummer," upon which he often capitalized by standing on a chair to exhibit the idiosyncrasy. At the Ecole Navale he successfully cultivated the sons of admirals and other personages...
...bull fiddle. He, too, swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer he discovered and married, Maxine Sullivan...
...moods: for dreamy music, "my eyes look far away and my jaw drops"; for speedier work, "I look like a fielder trying to catch a fly ball with the sun in his eyes." The No. 3 expression, unclassifiable, was for moments of hair-tossing, gum-chomping abandon, during which Drummer Krupa yelled over & over (he said): "Lyonnaise potatoes and some pork chops...
Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...