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After You've Gone (Gene Krupa; Okeh). Sensational blasting by Trumpeter Roy Eldridge...
...taking a back seat to recognition of talent. Roy Eldridge, the small colored trumpeter, whose size doesn't seem to prevent him from blowing as dynamic a horn as any of his fellows, stopped fooling around with his own little band in Chicago and joined up with Gene Krupa. Judging from a few late evening broadcasts I have heard in the past few weeks, I wouldn't say the change is doing Roy's reputation much good, for with one or two exceptions he concentrated on "instrumental tight-rope walking" rather than the excellent, tasteful jazz improvisations he has been...
...Monday is scheduled the Senior Spread, which will be held in Lowell House with Gene Krupa providing the music. Wednesday is Class Day, which will be celebrated by some 50 classes dating back 70 years. Most of these will join in the colorful procession to the Stadium in the afternoon, where the Ivy orators will speak. At 3:30 o'clock the baseball team is scheduled to oppose Yale...
...Krupa's band comes here after recent engagements at the Meadowbrook Club, Glen Island Casino, and the Hotel Pennsylvania. "The band will tend towards the smooth and sweet," commented McGann. Mrs. Roger Irving Lee of Brookline is Head Patroness, and will be assisted by Mrs. James Bryant Conant, Mrs. Delmar Leighton, Mrs. Langdon P. Narvin, and Mrs. Ralph Hornblower...
Preliminary arrangements indicate a party this year the Seniors won't forget in a hurry. The central attraction will be Gene Krupa's band, a "relaxed and sincere" outfit, according to experts. Rumor has it that he will stick to mellow and glidable music. Book-sick men will also be lured by plenty of food and drinks plus the usual starlight activities. Thus while ignorant armies clash by night, the Spread stands out as the last chance in College to forget that coming year in khaki...