Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trombonist Turk Murphy, who uses an empty gallon paint can for a mute, used to sit in with Bunk Johnson. Banjoist Henry Mordecai once played guitar, caught the jazz fever and bought three riverboat banjos so he could switch from one to another when his ferocious strumming broke the strings. Drummer Bill Dart has fingers like crowbars, drums almost exclusively on wood blocks and a washboard. Pianist Wally Rose, a man with a solid beat, also plays Bach and Chopin...
...young ex-marine with a guitar sang nasally...
Francisco Castillo Najera was the impulsive Latin American. Mexico's Foreign Minister, a surgeon, poet and guitar player as well as diplomat, spoke and gestured volubly. In his heavily accented French, he dropped Gallic syllables like Mexican hot tamales. When he rendered Gromyko's cumbersome title, Représentant de I'Union des Républiques Socialistes Soviétiques, it shortened to le représ . . . tant de Union . . . tique. But at tense moments the versatile Mexican was a model of taciturn tact...
...truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs of suspense yet contrived...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...