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...Flat," one of the greatest improvised performances ever made by a pickup band of colored and white musicians. Bunny Berrigan, Teddy Wilson, Chu Berry, and Johnny Mince, late of Tommy Dorsey, combine their talents to produce one of the most satisfying jazz records of the past ten years . . . George Frazier '33, the Boston jazz critic who has frequently graced the Crimson Network with his presence, this year has decided to immortalize his alma mater's most notorious characteristic. He and his fiancee are writing the lyrics to "Harvard Indifference Blues," which Count Basie will record for posterity . . . Another interesting...
...been a very good build-up for what's going to happen tonight on the Network. Earl Hines will be down there from 7:30 to 8:00 (prior to doing a one-nighter at Paul Revere Hall). The "Father," who will be interviewed by jazz critic George Frazier, plans to speak on some fundamentals of jazz piano, demonstrating them in his own style. Art Hyman and Rupe Wright will be eating it up, and this wouldn't be a bad idea for any of you who play piano or just listen...
This time Crosby and Hope are a footsore carnival combination working their way through Africa. Hope, as Fearless Frazier, a harassed stooge who has to be shot from a cannon or wrestle an octopus, wants to get home to Birch Falls, Iowa. Crosby always interrupts the plan with a new enterprise. Before it is over, they take a safari through the jungle with Dorothy Lamour and Una Merkel, almost get eaten by cannibals...
...sitting in, and they have included Bobby Hackett, Coleman Hawkins, Lips Page, Pec Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, and Sidney Catlett. All of these musicians have nothing but the best to say for their less famous colleagues. Furthermore, a number of critics have been pricking up their ears recently. George Frazier drives down from Boston, and George Avakian makes the trek from New York. Really, this is something very special, and you'll be letting yourself in for plenty of fine swing music if you get in on the ground floor. Muggsy Spanier will be there this Sunday--he's worth...
Married. Wilma Baard, 23, blonde model and bargemaster's daughter who achieved fame two years ago when 14 Manhattan café cowboys sponsored her "debut" in protest at the Brenda Frazier hoopla; and Count Nava del Tajo, 25, distant relative of the Duke of Alba; in Manhattan...