Word: guitarist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andrés Segovia, 62, the great Spanish guitarist, this week gives a recital in Town Hall...
George had a loud singing voice when he was a child. At eight, he was using it in church choirs around Chicago. When he finished Roosevelt High School ("I was voted most likely to dissolve"), he got started in radio as a singer and guitarist on barn dance shows and managed to keep busy as a vocalist at weddings and bazaars. He even had some acting jobs on radio, but they were only bit parts. On the Tom Mix Show, for instance, Gobel was always the boy who said plaintively, "I'll hold your horse...
Barney Kessel (Contemporary LP). A top jazz guitarist comes out of West Coast TV and film studios to make his first featured album. Most of these selections are clean, agile and on the cool side, typical of the spate of jazz disks coming from the Coast...
Eight selections by almost-blind Pianist Tatum, deserving hero of a whole generation of jazzmen, nimble Guitarist Everett Barksdale, and Slam Stewart, the man with the talking bass fiddle. Typical selections: a surrealist version of September Song, and Just One of Those Things, which goes like sixty...
...early crowd gave way to the late one, the little band began to perk up. Vibraphonist Joe Roland bent over his instrument like a chef over a hot stove. Guitarist Tal Farlow, who had gazed vaguely into space as he played, began to take an interest in the way his fingers rambled up & down the fingerboard. Clarinetist Shaw began to interpolate light-hearted musical comments on his own flights-the raised eyebrow of a grace note, the shrugging arpeggio, the delayed take, the impudent echo. His glum face relaxed into smiles, and the crowd began to hear the new Artie...