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...early disks lost or destroyed, many bygone jazz greats are no more than legends today. A new company called Riverside Records is now making things considerably easier for seekers after the oldtime gospel. It has obtained rights to Chicago's 30-year-old, pioneering Paramount and Gennett catalogues, is busily transferring the best numbers to durable LPs. Result: some of the earthiest jazz heard in captivity anywhere. Best of the lot: some really gone blues by Singer Ma Rainey, known as the teacher of more famed Bessie Smith, and eight stomping numbers by Fats Waller, most of them previously...
...matter of fact the story goes that when Hoagy thought up the tune, he didn't put it down on paper; therefore when a Richmond theatre band did the first recording of "Stardust" (a rare and famous Gennett record), Hoagy had to teach the men their parts by whistling them...
...trumpet player extraordinary and kingpin of jazz history, played on this record. Since a very Bixian horn is to be heard on the record and since Bix was a good friend of Carmichael's, it was thought he was in the band. This has lately been conclusively disproved and Gennett 6311 can now claim fame only as being the first recording of "Stardust" not as a repository for one of Bix's superlative solos...
...director of civilian relief in the American Red Cross for Italy last year, is at the head of the Bureau of Reconstruction and Relief. On the Editorial and Historical Division, Barton Blake '05 acts as chief and included among his assistants is Lewis S. Gennett '13. Most of these men have been abroad from the first...
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