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...remember that the big booking agencies are getting grey hairs trying to find new bands to fill the spots which are opening for name band attractions, and that every effort is being made to entice good side-men away from their leaders to fulfill contracts . . . Buddy Shutz, Goodman's drummer, who always gave me a pain in the neck, is leaving with no replacement announced. For a guy that's supposed to be leaving the business. Goodman is making an awful lot of excellent changes. If he keeps on this way, he may soon be back to the level...
...Chick is a deluding appelation for Mr. Webb. He is without doubt the most powerful drummer in the country. Vague resemblance to the Goodman brass section can be seen in his playing. Lately, however, he seems to have concentrated on backing the band, which is much better than the days when he used to cut loose now and then regardless of what else was going...
...evening was a success . . . Harry James starts half way through "One O'Clock Jump," and ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly. Just a bit louder, and one could do away with the chapel bell . . . Asked Joe Jones, Count Basie's drummer, the other day how he could stand playing the pop tunes that all bands must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights and the right girl." Excellent criteria for the judgment of swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called...
...funny. It always sounds as if it did not take the composer long to make up. ... I liked the symbells very much as they gave off a very good tinkling sound. You could hear them in spite of all the noise. I had a good view of the Drummer...
...throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...