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...More Eggs. Kenton organized his band five years ago in Hollywood, and rode along in the brassy wakes of Woody Herman and Lionel Hampton. Said he: "We created a lot of nervous energy but it wasn't what people felt. I decided to change our style...
...play looks like an unfinished pool room, which perhaps it is. The once jumping Ken Club is now indistinguishable from a thousand and one other marginal niteries. Best bet out of a poor field is the Club Savoy near the corner of Massachusetts and Columbus Avenues. Here a former Hampton sideman, Earl Bostie, manipulated the keys of his alto in an exceptionally adept but rather confusing manner. The member of his unit, a remarkably happy looking and youthful bunch compared with most jaded jazzmen, were largely recruited from Benny Carter's and Lionel Hampton's outfits some months...
First morning out he was up at 6 a.m. to look over Hampton Roads and an eye-filling spectacle: three aircraft carriers, three cruisers and nine destroyers of Task Group 801 of the U.S. Eighth Fleet. Two hours later, the President was piped aboard the new 45,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt. Thereafter, anyone who followed energetic Harry Truman around the big ship got anything but rest...
Also brought out in the discussion before the final vote was Stacy's record with the original Benny Goodman Sextet, which featured such distinguished jazzmen as Harry James, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton. He also worked for five years with Bob Crosby and Tommy Dorsey...
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