Word: iberia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About five years ago a Pittsburgh jazz enthusiast named William Russell heard from Louis Armstrong that Bunk Johnson was still alive somewhere in the Deep South. Once Bunk was found at his old home in New Iberia, La., he became a voluble correspondent. He slowly pecked out his careful letters on an old typewriter. Says he: "You can sit down with a cup of coffee and a cigaret and be sure you won't go to sleep because that little bell keeps waking you up." Bunk kept insisting in his letters that if he had a trumpet...
Last summer William Russell and some friends made a trip to New Iberia to find out whether Bunk was really as good as he said he was. They came away determined that Bunk should be heard. Finally an offer came from San Francisco, where an interior decorator named Rudolph Pickett Blesh was lecturing on hot jazz at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Blesh wanted Bunk to illustrate a lecture...
...Debussy: Iberia (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Debussy's moon-drenched impressionist landscape of Spain (one (of his finest orchestral works) has yet to get an ideal recording. The Pittsburghers lack the New York Philharmonic's (Barbirolli; Victor) finish, but Conductor Reiner paints Debussy's highlights more subtly...
...Crimson Concert Hall: Richard Strauss, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Debussy, Iberia...
...sergeant in the National Guard in World War I. Then he hunted for oil in Texas - and found it, near Wichita Falls. He found more in Oklahoma and in California. In Louisiana he struck it really rich because he found not only plenty of oil around New Iberia but also Robert Maestri, cagey political boss of New Orleans...