Word: kells
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
STILL, Benny was far from satisfied. He had made friends O with one of the world's finest classical clarinet players, Reginald Kell, and in 1949 he began taking lessons from...
WILLIAM R. KELL...
...George Kell is the best all-around third baseman in the League. He's not hitting well this season but he's never failed to clear .300 in the past few seasons. And he's only...
Detroit is still in the slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...
...also feels that the U.S. has been made "clarinet conscious" by some of the "other kind" of tootlers, e.g., Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session...