Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second prize went to Nicholas Van Slyck '44, for his original piano concerto in E flat minor. A "String Ensemble" composed of a hot sax, a pace setting piano, and a guitar took third place...
Heudi Ledbetter, ace negro blues singerr, known to many as "Leadbelly," the only twelve-string guitar player in America and one-time convict, stole the show when he sang last night at a benefit performance for Spanish relief in the Cantabrigia Club. A packed room clamoured incessantly for more of his husky voiced "hot ones...
Leadbelly, whose checkered career is most distinguished by his ballad singing, but has also included a stay in a state penitentiary, will accompany himself on the guitar...
Hall has just made four twelve-inch sides for Blue Note Records, playing in a quartet which includes Meade Lux Lewis on celeste, Charlie Christians on electric guitar, and Israel Crosby on string bass. The combination, as you can see, is quite exceptional, and the music is awfully interesting. The four tunes, "Profoundly Blue," "Celestial Express," "Jamming in Four," and "Edmond Hall Blues" are all blues, two slew and two fast, and Hall is the star on everyone, although Lux Lewis' delicate celeste work is an unusual departure from the heavy beat of ordinary boogie-woogie Collectively, the boys weave...
...playing a lot of tenor these days any you don't want to miss him ... Record of the week: Jelly Jelly, a slow blues by Earl Hines. Soloists include the Father opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes sissies out of the white bands (BLUEBIRD)... Billie Holiday and Benny Carter get together on two old numbers: Loveless Love and St. Louis Blues...