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First Congregational Church Hampton, Conn...
Listen to Buddy Rich some time, and then play a record by Lionel Hampton, called Shufflin' at the Hollywood, with Cozy Cole on drums. You hardly hear Cozy on this record, but you can feel the beat, and the way he builds it up. Cozy has a superb sense of phrasing, and everything he does fits in with the band. And this is the point I'm trying to get at : if a drummer doesn't fit in with a band, he's playing flash and is a one-man band himself. This seems to me to be extremely important...
...Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement of which is remarkably unpretentious. Reverse, The Flaming Sword, says "fox-trot" on the label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just for Laffs and both guitars take all the honors (VICTOR)... Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among...
George W. Varn 2d. '42, Jacksonvillo, Fla.; Edwin W. Vogler Jr. '42, Carbondale, Ill.; Colton P. Wagner '41, South hampton, L.I., N.Y.: Warren F. Walker Jr. '41, Malden, Mass.; Gordon W. Waltles '42, Hollywood, Calif.; Carl Weihl'42, Cincinnatti, Ohio...
...debut gown last year, is now in the bank-account class. She has moved from Manhattan's Harlem to musical West 57th Street. Besides singing with the four major symphony orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago), she made a triumphant concert return to Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall. But Dorothy Maynor is just hitting her stride...