Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Coleman Hawkins and Big Sidney Catlett will be featured at the Crown Hotel jam session in Providence on Sunday. The Hawk is 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...
...yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk Man's constantly rescued women. A boy who had been ignored all his life by an unstable mother and an alcoholic father believed that he was in constant danger, that he would die in five years. He found relief by identifying himself with the invulnerable Superman. For normal children...
...plays tenor sax with the Jones Brothers' band at the Savoy on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Now the Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with that kind of jazz. Maybe...
...PILGRIM HAWK-Glenway Wes-cott-Harper...
...Pilgrim Hawk is as good as anyone need hope. It is a superbly turned specimen of that long-short form which Story Editor Whit Burnett likes to call The Novella. "Simple" only in profile and in the manner of its telling, the tale has symbolic and psychological structures that are no simpler than the internal cross-flickerings of a poem...