Word: jazzman
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...shay), who looks like a sleepy Pullman porter, has been talking through a clarinet for more than 40 years. Last week, in a smoky joint called Jimmy Ryan's on Manhattan's brassy 52nd Street, Sidney was proving again that he is the best Dixieland two-beat jazzman anywhere on clarinet or soprano saxophone (which looks like an oversize clarinet...
...Wilfred Theodore Weems is no hot jazzman, though his first job after leaving college in 1924 was blowing the trombone in a group called the California Ramblers (other Ramblers: Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini). Weems soon started a band of his own, specializing in what he calls "businessman's bounce." His College Inn audience last week was mostly people in their late 30s or early 40s, who got nostalgic memories when Weems played his old theme song, Out of the Night, and could remember the last time Heartaches...
...students who showed up hovered admiringly around the bandstand all evening while Lawrence played schmalzy ballads like Buttermilk Sky and To Each His Own. Lawrence's autumn schedule covers nine universities, including such profitable dates as Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska. His nearest competitor-Veteran jazzman Tommy Dorsey's orchestra-has five big college dates...
...greatest jazzman of them all, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, was back on Broadway. The word spread, the devotees gathered. But jazz purists who went prospecting for his golden trumpet notes had to pan out a lot of wet gravel...
Washington's Constitution Hall, owned by the deeply dignified Daughters of the American Revolution, was getting more exclusive all the time. When famed Jazzman Eddie Condon tried to book his band into the hall, the manager threw up his hands in horror. Wrote he: "One of our restrictions prevents us playing jazz bands . . . because of the type of audience which attends .and which in some cases may be very destructive...