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Late Blessings. Lewis himself had to surmount certain obstacles, not the least of which was the opposition of his father, a Los Angeles real estate and automobile salesman who felt that the only music career open to a Negro was as a lowly jazzman. When he was five, his mother sneaked him off to a piano teacher, later encouraged his lessons on the double bass, an instrument he "got stuck with" in order to fill a gap in his high-school orchestra. He also played on the school football team and his father hoped that he might make a career...
Died. Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, 60, cornet-playing jazzman and master of Dixieland, whose Five Pennies was one of the most popular white combos of the late 1920s, at times including such future stars as Benny Goodman, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller and Gene Krupa, but was eclipsed in the 1930s by the big dance bands of Red's former pupils until 1944, when he managed a small comeback with Five new Pennies on the nightclub circuit; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas...
Turnabout is fair play, decided bearded New Orleans Jazzman Al Hint, 41. He had cut a disk with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall, so this time it was Conductor Arthur Fiedler, 69, guesting it high on the revolving stage of Hirt's Bourbon Street hangout. "Where are the other 90 musicians?" Fiedler began, raising his baton, whereupon the six-man combo beat him to the beat by hurtling into Trumpeter's Lullaby. "We only have one rule," Al explained kindly. "The one who finishes first gets to play the ending." Since Fiedler had never really started...
According to campus legend, the founders of Clarke arrived at Dubuque by riverboat in 1843 bringing a grand piano with them. The creative arts have played a central role at the college ever since. The girls are bored with traditional music, preferring to hear concerts by Jazzman Dave Brubeck, or to put on their own performances of Virgil Thomson's Medea or Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti. Bold, colorful abstract painting, sculpture, ceramics and mosaics by students and faculty are everywhere on campus, reflecting Demers' concept that art "is the flesh of every aspect of life...
...make that same scene. Marijuana smoke curls up from the pages; the characters are mostly Greenwich Village idiots. But though the chief idiot, Manny Fells, has lowered himself by his own bootstraps into the right kind of roach-ridden Manhattan loft studio, he is neither junkie nor jazzman but a 26-year-old adolescent with tired blood. Hunger, and doubtless boredom, drives him to nothing more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend, and his upfall is assured. Author Gelber's anteroom...