Word: goodmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week I had planned to go overboard for Benny Goodman's new band, but I've become so tired of writing in the superlative that I think I'll say something about riff tunes today...
...following group of Freshmen were selected from the 32 who originally participated: George M. Bennett, Robert G. Drake, Thomas L. Farmer, Robert N. Ginsburgh, George W. Gootz, Frank F. Goodman, Robert Harwood, Wade Rockwood, Howard M. Spire, Thomas M. Stanton, Joseph Tekulsky, and Alex Williams...
Well, Count Basie isn't going with Goodman after all, and I guess the boys in the band felt pretty good about it last Monday, when they were doing a one-nighter at the noisy, smoke-filled Eggleston Gardens. Now that kind of atmosphere is right up the Basie alley, and consequently they played jazz as I've never heard them play it before...
...Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA's Boogie-Woogie Album. Best of the records is Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet of Guy Kelly, as well as Albert's own rolling bass... Benny Goodman of 1940, heard at his Totem-Pole one nighter, is one of the biggest things in jazz since the Goodman of 1936... Highlights: Cootie Williams with the Sextet, playing half an hour straight, including Honeysuckle Rose and a lot of fast blues... Benny will go to Rochester Sunday, where...
Mozart: Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra (Reginald Kell. clarinet, with Dr. Malcolm Sargent conducting the London Philharmonic; Victor: 8 sides). Limpid tootling of superb melodies. Clarinetist Goodman (above), slated to play this work with the New York...