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Django Reinhardt was sure everyone must have heard of him. Hadn't jazz critics like France's Hugues Panassié called him Europe's leading jazz artist and the world's greatest jazz guitarist? Django was so certain that he was famous in the U.S. that he left his guitar in France: U.S. guitar manufacturers would give him guitars and pay him for playing them. Last week, before he could go on stage in Cleveland's Public Music Hall, he had to go out and borrow a guitar...
...that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...
...vast pre-war array of hit music emporiums in this puritanical city, only the Savoy, on a moderate re-bop kick, and occasionally the Rio, featuring at present Andy Kirk and his atomic guitarist, Floyd Smith, are rocking to any other beat than three quarter time. Gone are the days when the respective hearts of the Boston Jazz Society, the Copley Terrace, the Ken, Maxie's, and the Tic-Toc were young and gay. O tempore, O mores! Some of us can be found of a gloomy week day eve crying in our beer at the Show Time where...
Richard Dyer-Bennet: Love Songs (Disc, 6 sides). Wistful love, Elizabethan style. Guitarist Dyer-Bennet's six songs include Westryn Wind and Blow the Candles Out ("Roll me in your arms, love"). Performance: excellent...
...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...