Word: drummers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhythm section is one saving grace. Boogie-woogie specialist Sammy Price and drummer Art Trappier quadruple-handedly provide a strong driving beat that accomplishes much toward knitting the band closer together. Kaminsky's group plays jazz. It's one on the synthesized side...
Jimmy Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...
...Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...
Holmes started his life of variety at the age of eight, when he learned to play the violin. He concentrated in languages at Harvard, was a bass drummer (a difficult instrument on which to achieve eminence) in the Band under Leroy Anderson, and was president of Pierian Sodality. Since then, with a little time out for graduate work in music, the beaming, popular leader has been simultaneously conductor of the Wellesley, Radcliffe, and Harvard Orchestras, and director of the Wellesley Concert series. He has taught classes in music appreciation, acted as graduate advisor of Pierian, and has been an instructor...
...days when the Crimson Stompers were getting organized, they held their practice jam sessions down on Coolidge Hill Road behind Stillman Infirmary at the home of Charles H. Taylor, professor of History. And they had a cornetist sitting in with the band whose playing Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, drummer and manager of the group, describes as a "mean cornet a la Max Kaminsky." The horn-player's name was Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of Harvard College...