Word: jazzman
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...value of mescaline,* rejected the whole idea. While itinerant musicians are apt to dally with the belles along the way, Dave is happily married and has four children (a fifth is on the way). Although a shady background was once almost essential to the seasoning of a real-life jazzman, Dave spent his youth playing nursemaid to heifers and earned his first money ($1 a Sunday) playing hymns in a school. Characteristically, Dave has several priests among his friends, including Boston's Father Norman O'Connor, who used to play the piano in a dance band himself...
...Jazzman's World. Brubeck does not get to spend much time in his house on the hill. He is away six months of the year, living in the jazzman's restless world of all-night coach rides, smoky nightclubs and hamburger joints at dawn. Nowadays, the quartet travels in better style than in the days when it chugged cross-country in Dave's old car, with the string bass tied to the ceiling. But Brubeck still retains most of his frugal habits: he travels with one suit (two pairs of pants) that rarely gets a pressing...
...over in pain. "I can't go on," he moaned. "It's my stomach. Get a doctor." "But you're on in ten minutes," pleaded the manager. "I'll never make it," cried Sidney. Then the manager noticed a poster, understood the source of the jazzman's distress: Bechet's name was printed in small type, way down on the list of performers. Quickly he explained that it was all a mistake, and promised to get Sidney better billing. Bechet brightened. "Will I get a private dressing room, too?" "Absolument!" agreed the manager hurriedly...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
Most of the first "X" recordings go back to the '20s, when many a later famed jazzman was playing with a now all but forgotten outfit, e.g., Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller and Jimmy McPartland turn up in Ben Pollack and His Orchestra. Others from the '20s: Eddie Condon's Hot Shots, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers. From the '30s: Jimmie Lunceford and His Chickasaw Syncopators and the legendary Jimmy Yancey, who beats out eight beautiful blues and boogies. RCA engineers managed to clean up the old masters until the recorded sound...