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Sopranos Frances Alda, Lillian Nordica; Tenors Alessandro Bonci, Charles Hackett, Edward Johnson...
...this time he had just about the finest white soloists in the country, but his records concentrate on the arrangements and feature only scattered solos. Yet these records contain the most spirited playing any big white band has put on wax. Miller can only lay claim to Bobby Hackett and possibly Billy May as definitely first rate improvisers, although little of their work with him justifies it. The rest of the men in the band, and that includes Tex Beneke, are all facile soloists with few ideas and little individuality. If Miller devoted a whole record to a Beneke solo...
There's only one world for Frankie. Magnificent. Judging from records and personal appearances, he's easily the greatest trumpeter to play here regularly. This is no idle statement, for Red Allen, Bill Davison, Max Kaminsky, Bobby Hackett, and Hot Lips Paige are no slouches. You can call it "Soul" and flutter your eyelids. Call it "Inspiration" and swoon. More directly, Newton is closest to the soul of jazz, in his sincerity, strength, tenderness, and disregard for convention...
...Hackett, George Haydock...
Headmaster Hackett puts his boys through a stiff curriculum. Nearly all of them go on to college: 85% of them get by the College Boards at the first try. Riverdale musicians give a concert every year in Manhattan's Town Hall; until the war Riverdale boys toured Europe on bicycles. Two Riverdale boys, musicians' sons and themselves musicians, Leopold Mannes and Leopold Godowsky Jr., were pioneers in the development of color photography...