Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expressive solos that cut right through you while at the same time managing to yield fine swing. The band itself has that colored lag, playing just behind the beat, that is so essential to good swing, while at the same time playing with a precision that few colored bands ever reach. Ray Noonan (trombone), Stewy McKay (tenor sax), and Buddy Christian (drums) all contribute to the fine jazz which this band turns out. Compare Norvo's records of "Remember", "It's Wonderful", "I Know That You Know" with the same by Goodman, Dorsey, and Krupa to see why Norvo (shifting...
...where Larry Funk's band was playing. Someone was starting to sing "I Cried For You", but no one paid any attention until about three measures had passed. But those three measures and everything that came there-after made up some of the best jazz singing that I have ever heard--easy, unaffected, done with long, slow phrases like Mildred Bailey, yet with the same rhythm that Ella Fitzgerald puts into everything that she does. Instead of Ella and Mildred singing duets, all the musical commotion was caused by a young lady with a wide grin surmounted...
Wild attempted in his talk to appraise the fundamentals of democracy which makes it different from the totalitarian states, and after finding the obvious definitions of majority rule and protected minority rights inadequate, reached three conclusions. First be listed the supremacy of reason ever brute force, second the importance of the individual mind as opposed to the mass mind, third the recognition of a code of reasoned justices...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...
Whether or not the Teachers' Oath will ever be repealed in Massachusetts may be determined by the outcome of today's vote for reconsideration of the bill which was defeated in the House last Thursday...