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...referring to Illinois Jacquet, a saxophone player who is a popular exponent of the "wild" school. Although Jacquet has appeared at places like Symphony Hall, his music is neither classical nor modern, dixieland nor bop; it is loud...
...Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
...Aero Club in Paris, the officials waited breathless for news of the landings. One by one telegrams filtered in, but there was no word of Jacquet or the Dutch couple. For two days they were feared lost at sea. At last the word came. Jacquet had won, landing near Ghent, Belgium, after a flight of 430 kilometers (less than half the record distance). As for the Boesmans, they had landed only 50 miles from Le Mans. They hadn't bothered to telegraph, they explained, because they couldn't speak French...
Coleman Hawkins, who brought the saxophone through almost all of its agonizing stages of development as a hot instrument from its first bicycle horn-like groping right down to the present era of squealing reeds and cyclone phrasing, heads the list. He will do battle with Illinois Jacquet, one of the younger fry, whose playing measured by the decibel and the foot pound is unexcelled...