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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed signs of being a really great organization. Charley Spivak, formerly Bob Crosby's ace trumpet man, Ernic Cacares, whose sax playing aroused so much comment in New York at Nick's, and Allan Reuss, formerly with Goodman (guitar) are all playing with the band. And Mr. Teagarden himself, known to the trade as "Big Gate," is going to lead the four man trombone section. Jack was playing hot trombone when Tommy Dorsey was playing licks on a milk bottle. Listen to "Texas Tea Party" (Columbia 31671) of "Moonglow" (Columbia 2927D, all made with the old Goodman band, to hear...
...Basie and other bands is done quite well (Victor) . . . About the Goodman Quintet's record of "Pick-A-Rib" (Victor): It sounds to me as if his brother Harry were the bass player on the record. And brother Harry runs a barbecue on 52nd Street in New York known as the Pick-A-Rib. That wouldn't be an advertisement, would it? The first side is uniformly bad, sounding something like one of Ray Scott's compositions. The second, done in boogie-woogie tempo is better, but shows that Teddy Wilson can't play this style . . . To find why many...
Instead the Independents are known for an attitude of truculent reaction and their serious efforts turn to buffoonery, as in the distasteful handling of the recent Jewish-refugees-to-Palestine drive. Constructive political theory seems to be wanting in the organization and while youth may excuse the same vice which hampers their Republican fathers, there is not even evidence of a vigorous class bias to take the place of thought...
...Known as one of the world's most eminent authorities in the field of ancient classics, Jaeger will hold one of the University Professorships recently created by President Conant by which the holder is free to make his own teaching and research schedules and may teach in any department of the University...
Born in Lobberich, Germany in 1838, and educated at the Universities of Marburg and Berlin, Jaeger became well-known in his twenties by establishing the order and date of the books of Aristotle's "Metaphysics" of which the manuscript tradition had become confused...