Word: drummers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pete Kelly's Blues (Victor & Columbia LPs). Both of these disks offer the same musicians-Clarinetist Matty Matlock and his Jazz Band, including Tenorman Eddie Miller, Guitarist George Van Eps, Drummer Nick Fatool-and eleven of the same tunes from the current movie. Several of the players, once the shock-thatched cream of Chicagoland, are now the cream of Movieland, and their thinning hair is neatly parted...
...Constitution League set up tables on the sidewalks, where passers-by could sign petitions against the Senate bill. All told, 100,000 women signed the petition, and the militants climbed in their cars and descended on Pretoria, the administrative capital, from all over South Africa. Led by a lady drummer, the women marched on the government offices, many of them singing Die Stem, the official national anthem. They were met by the Minister of Transport, deputizing for Strydom, but all that he could tell them was: "There can be no compromise when the life [of the white...
...Ordered the Veterans Administration to pay for home treatment of Albert Woolson, 108, in order to spare him the 165-mile trip from his Duluth home to the nearest VA hospital. Woolson, at 17 a drummer boy in Minnesota's 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, is the Union Army's lone Civil War survivor...
Shelly Marine & Russ Freeman (Contemporary). Two top West Coast jazzmen go just about as far in mutual understanding as a pair of improvisers can go. Drummer Manne is not only a good rhythm man, but treats his skins, tubes and disks with an uncanny ear for contrasts of color and pitch. Pianist Freeman is an able partner, matching idea for idea, sound for sound. His style falls somewhere between the burbling counterpoint of Lennie Tristano and the swinging drive of Dave Brubeck. An adventure...
LAUGH TILL You CRY, by Wolf Mankowitz (127 pp.; Dutton; $2.50), puts a shipwrecked English drummer on a tropical island and leaves him there when he makes the discovery that he never had it so good. When Ronald Rantz comes ashore, he takes with him his salesman's sample case. His stock in trade: exploding cigars, invisible itching powder, the usual assortment of smoking-car killers that are guaranteed to make you "Laugh Till You Cry." The island, a between-trade-routes speck somewhere near the Caribbean, looks like paradise, but the seemingly innocent natives soon prove...