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...sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...
...MUSIC + ELLA + JOBIM (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The equation yields a salute to rhythm. Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Brazil's Antonio Carlos Jobim sing the standards...
...combat). Tall and taut at 6 ft. 2 in. and 195 lbs., Olds weighs 10 lbs. less than he did as an All-America tackle on West Point's 1943 football team, has recently sprouted a chestnut R.A.F.-style handlebar mustache that horrified his wife, former Movie Actress Ella Raines, when she visited her husband in Hong Kong last March. Said she: "I thought your teeth were dirty...
...BEST ON RECORD (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)* Such Grammy Award-winning performers as The New Vaudeville Band, Eydie Gorme, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles sing the songs that earned the recording industry's highest honors...
...Ella Baker, former executive director of SCLC and a key figure in the founding of SNCC, will speak on "The Student and the South: New Coalition in the Old Confederacy," at 4 p.m. today in Emerson...