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Blessings come doubly this week, from Lowell and Leverett. The good news from Lowell is that the Art Hodes band, which S/Sgt. George Avakian raved about in this column two weeks ago, will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring...
...taking it session by session, and showing the development of the musicians, styles, and numbers involved. Recorded music is entirely different from live music, and with a man like George Avakian running things, the "Jazzmen" series should prove just as exciting, in its own way, as the Lowell-Hodes jam session. Things are looking up in Cambridge...
Although a versatile group of varied interests and backgrounds, they get together very well as a jive band to throw the cadence for the jam sessions at Phillips Brooks House, third deck, once a week. Attendance has increased 100 per cent since their start
General Sir Bernard Montgomery, who, back home with his cricket-captain son David, had lately made a picture of English summertime contentment, was in a jam when his Fortress ground-looped on a Sicilian airport about the size of a cricket field. Thoroughly shaken up but uninjured, the General "took it like a good sport," said his pilot...
Among jazz fans, and they seem to be plentiful on both sides of the quadrangle, the super colossal attraction is the appearance of a body of top-notch improvisers at Lowell House. Art Hodes and Mezz Mezzrow head the list of jam specialists, so don't be surprised if you see a mad dash in the direction of Lowell House right after inspection...