Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Interviewed in Manhattan, debonair Crooner Billy Eckstine announced plans to record an Eckstine-composed duet, Two for Tee, with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
...professional musicians grinned and bore it, Amateur Pianist Truman banged out Hail, Hall, the Gang's All Here on the gift instrument, with the nation's most loose-lipped trumpeter, Musicians' Czar James Caesar Petrillo, bleating what passed for the south half of a duet going north. Then Truman tinkled through a performance of Paderewski's Minuet in G, later lauded by a Chicago musicritic as "recognizable." But the worst of his week was yet to come...
Pouts & Frowns. The first day's session at Carnegie Hall began as the conductor nervously walked to his podium. The orchestra's applause calmed him down, and in a flash he called, "Duetto!" Soprano Herva Nelli and Tenor Jan Peerce began singing the last-act duet from Un Ballo in Maschera. Here & there the maestro stopped to shout a fiery "Vergogna!" or "Madonna mia!" and the group diligently began again. Finally, everybody managed to get through the duet according to Toscanini's demands, and the piece was recorded...
John Austin '56 has divided his Piano Suite for Children into brief sections whose charm lies in their simplicity. Occasionally he takes the title too literally and the result (as in Chorale and Play) is merely pretty salon music. But the movements Song and Duet have a quietly reflective beauty that pervades the suite as a whole...