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...milestone in jazz history may well occur in Boston on Monday, March 12, when five of the greatest living Now Orleans jazzmen gather together at the Savoy Cafe. The world famous soprano saxophone star, Sidney Bechet, will open a four weeks engagement at the Massachusetts Avenue club with a new Dixieland Band featuring Pops Foster, Bunk Johnson, Hank Duncan, and Fred Moore. The Bechet quintet will also appear Monday night at 30 Huntington Avenue in a concert sponsored by the Boston Jazz Society. George Frazier, former CRIMSON columnist and present Theatre Editor of Life magazine, will be in town...
Jimmie recalls endless gin, playing variations on Tea for Two for days on end, jamming at Harlem's Rhythm Club with youthful Duke Ellington, Art Tatum and Fats Waller, writing a bale of tunes for Broadway producers. He was one of the first jazzmen to go on the air. ("In those days we never got paid-just pats on the back and promises. . . .") By the end of the '203, Jimmie's health had more holes than a piano roll, and he was ready for what he calls his "stormy days...
...Austin High School kids were embryonic musicians who just couldn't wait for the shell to hatch. They incubated under the New Orleans jazzmen who had come up the river when their home grounds were ruled off limits by the clean-up element among Crescent City reformists...
...Harvard Jazzmen are featuring a group of New York swing festers, namely Frankie Newton, Al Morgan, Arthur Karle, and Pinky Black at their third concert, Saturday. The bang-up affair is being held in the Lowell House Dining Hall, and as usual, any college musicians who care to play may drop around between 2 and 5 o'clock and lend their talents...
Hodes will have the same group as the last session with Mezz Mozzrow, Kaiser Marshall, and the rest of his veteran Jazzmen on hand. Any College players who wish may also try their luck in the Dining Hall, scene of the event...