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Among the band's members are some authentic jazz virtuosos. Sonny Payne is the grooviest of the big-band drummers-to watch, if not to listen to. Alto Saxophonist Marshall Royal, Trumpeter Snooky Young and Guitarist Freddy Green are all heartfelt blues soloists. Bassist Buddy Catlett, the band's newest member, gives the whole orchestra a subtle and highly advanced sense of rhythm. Keenly aware of all these virtues, Basie never lets his audience get a glimmer of the solemn musicianship behind them. "Now a little foot-pattin' music," he announces happily. Then he sits down...
...last week Collins and Allen were in a hot competition to turn out the grooviest session. On a Brunswick side of his own, Funnyman Allen told how Goldilocks wandered into the three bears' house, found that "the largest bowl [of soup] was very hot, the next bowl was very cool and the littlest bowl was just right. Naturally she chose the cool bowl." Meanwhile Jazzbo had switched over to Capitol Records, picked up a new scriptwriter (Douglas Jones), and last week released his second pair of "Grimm Fairy Tales for Hip Kids": Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs...