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This formula has made Les & Co. a stand-by on Bob Hope shows since 1946. It has also won the approval of the jazz fans: in Down Beat's latest band popularity poll, Brown's outfit ran second only to "Progressive" Jazzman Stan Kenton's. Last week the band packed Los Angeles' Trianon ballroom on Saturday night, and also appeared in a local TV show...
...taste in jazz bands had changed a bit, if only slightly: up into first place, nosing out last year's favorite, Woody Herman, went Progressive Jazzman Stan Kenton. For the second time in Down Beat, blind British Pianist George Shearing and his Quintet won the "best instrumental combo" title. For the ninth time, Spike Jones was elected "King of Corn." Runner-up: Guy Lombardo...
Turmpeter Davison, clarinetist Buster Bailey, and trombonist Vic Dickenson are all fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...
...years ago they changed their name, made some replacements and got the band into high gear. They made a hit playing a "casual"-a high-school country club dance. Then they landed a date playing once a week in Beverly Boulevard's Beverly Cavern when oldtime Jazzman Kid Ory was taking his night off. Comic...
...year ago last December, "progressive" Jazzman Stan Kenton decided to quit. His band was making almost as much money as it was noise, but Stan, who regarded himself as strictly a concert man, didn't like some of-the places he had to play, especially the dance halls. And he wasn't sure, he added, that he was "contributing." He toyed with the idea that he might contribute more by becoming a psychiatrist. "I guess I talked up a storm about the thing," he says. "Everybody thought that was going to be the next move." But it would...