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...continent, still carries a large number of the old sizzlers like Louis' West End Blues and Luis Russel's Feelin' The Spirit, which had been out of print in this country for years until the recent flurry of reissuing began. Oh, yes, life in Europe was soft for jazzmen...
Also brought out in the discussion before the final vote was Stacy's record with the original Benny Goodman Sextet, which featured such distinguished jazzmen as Harry James, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton. He also worked for five years with Bob Crosby and Tommy Dorsey...
Born. To Eddie Condon, 39, guitarist, leader of Manhattan's "pure" jazzmen (who scorn "semi-pro" canned jive and give concerts at Carnegie Hall) ; and Phyllis Reay Condon, 37, magazine writer: their second child, second daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Liza (from the title of his first recording). Weight...
Four nights a week, in a barren, gym-like hall called Stuyvesant Casino on Manhattan's tawdry Lower East Side, Bunk and his six fellow jazzmen from New Orleans gave out with rocking hymns like When the Saints Go Marching In, drum-heavy parade music like High Society and Maryland, My Maryland, and the quick-paced I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate ("she shakes like jelly on a plate"). Their tunes were old; their playing was steady beat, banjo-plunking, authentic New Orleans-and meant to dance to. Bunk and his bandmen couldn't understand...
...Solid" South (Capitol Records, 10 sides). Vol. I of a new firm's ambitious four-part survey of American jazz. With the exception of Leadbelly, whose piano, guitar and vocalizing are invulnerable, the rest is mostly men of the '40s trying to play the way the jazzmen did in the '20s. Performance: fair...