Word: guitarists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chesterfield Supper Club, with vocalists, 25-piece orchestra and pressagents, rehearsed and broadcast twice from a TWA Constellation 20,000 feet above Manhattan. The guitarist got so sick at rehearsal that he couldn't go up for the show...
Today the bigwig of be-bop is a scat named Harry ("The Hipster") Gibson, who in moments of supreme pianistic ecstasy throws his feet on the keyboard. No. 2 man is Bulee ("Slim") Gaillard, a skyscraping, zooty Negro guitarist. Gibson & Gaillard have recorded such hep numbers as Cement Mixer, which has sold more than 20,000 discs in Los Angeles alone; Yop Rock Heresay, Dreisix Cents and Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine? Sample lyrics...
Last week, in spite of all, Guitarist Eddie Condon got a nightclub of his own, where for the first time he was "eligible on both sides of the bar." Eddie Condon's, an incongruously plush spot, opened its doors in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and let out some of the loudest and longest renditions of Tea for Two and I've Found a New Baby to be heard since Prohibition...
...brought jam to tea-drinking Englishmen is a 30-year-old R.A.F. musician named Sidney Gross. Before the war he was a night club guitarist who liked to play American style with a few friends after hours. Then he heard the Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw bands play for the R.A.F. "When most English players hear Americans, they are so depressed they want to put their instruments away," says Gross. Instead, he wanted to go and do likewise...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...