Word: fiddlers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Three Flames-Pianist Roy Testamark, Guitarist George ("Tiger") Haynes and Bull Fiddler Averill ("Bill") Pollard-who seem to create their special brand of jived-up patter and song by spontaneous combustion, were cooking on all burners in a Manhattan basement nightclub, the Village Vanguard. Backed by some solid piano and rhythm, the Flames ("How hot can you get?") are now setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during...
Kreisler: Concerto in C in the style of Vivaldi (Fritz Kreisler, with the Victor String Orchestra, Donald Voorhees conducting; Victor, 4 sides). For 30 years Fiddler Kreisler credited this lyrical score to the 18th Century composer Vivaldi, but finally admitted writing it himself. Performance: good...
...heard a record of Louis Armstrong's Dallas Blues. Said he: "The rest of the orchestra-c'est mauvais, but Louis-il est formidable!" After listening to records by Armstrong, the Duke and Tommy Dorsey, he got together in 1935 with a hot fiddler named Stephane Grapelly, organized the Quintet of the Hot Club of France (three guitars, a violin and bass). Their records of U.S. jazz classics (Dinah; Lady, Be Good; My Melancholy Baby) are collectors' items. Most guitars are strummed, but Django developed a one-finger picking style because his left hand was badly burned...
Americans in Moscow, who have heard Eddy Rozner's dzhaz, were inclined to think that Izvestia had something there. Eddy's band has a good hot fiddler, a talented pianist, and an uncertain beat. Its arrangements, based on 5-&-10? store sheet music of U.S. hits which reach the U.S.S.R., is either imitative of U.S. jazz circa 1930, or unrecognizable...
After Enrico Caruso died, one of his fiddler accompanists decided to bow it alone. But Manhattan critics had few good words for his well-mannered Beethoven and Bach, and his Los Angeles concert fee was not enough to pay the room rent. Says hawk-nosed Xavier Cugat: "I knew that the American people was polite to an artist but crazy for a personality, so I decided to become a personality...