Word: luter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
...most of them refugees from Europe themselves-have taken over the Arabs' communities, where they now work Arab land, live in Arab houses and even use Arab cooking utensils. One such community is Akir, a village on the road between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which TIME Correspondent John Luter visited last week. Here is Luter's report...
...Stewart and Milton ("Mezz") Mezzrow - had won the wildest ovations. By comparison, the polite jazz of the Swiss, the Belgians (who went in for bebop) and the British got only polite applause. But the festival's local wonder was an un known young (24) French clarinetist named Claude Luter. When Claude blew out Canal Street Blues and High Society and one of his own called Abouche, sentimental Drummer Baby Dodds (whose late brother Johnny played clarinet with King Oliver) said tearfully: "That kid is terrific. I'd almost think Johnny was playing." Shy, sandy-haired Clarinetist Luter...
...Luter, whose band plays for free drinks in smoky student hangouts in Paris' Latin Quarter, was the prize find of French Jazz Pedant Hugues (Le Jazz Hot) Panassie, who helped organize the festival. Panassié had been denounced in angry manifestoes for picking an unknown like Claude Luter to represent French jazz. Uninvited French big-timers like Violinist Stephane Grappelly (Quintette de Hot Club de France), after popping off in the Communist press, grumpily consented to appear at the festival's closing session...
Except for a lone photographer who had a date to stay home and play Santa Claus, the whole Tokyo bureau figured on a Christmas dinner of raw fish, rice, sukiyaki, and U.S. turkey at John Luter's $20-a-month seacoast villa. Bureau Chief Carl Mydans who, with his wife, Shelley, spent two Christmases in Japanese concentration camps, expected 15 familyless French, Chinese, British, U.S. and Filipino correspondents to join in. Cabled Correspondent Luter: "After dinner we'll feed the carp in the 100-foot fishpond and sing carols to the accompaniment of a Japanese samisen. It will...