Word: macpartland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornetist Jimmy MacPartland, who sparked the jazz revival in a smoke-filled joint in the Loop called the Brass Rail Theater Bar (TIME, May 5), had moved to a new Loop bar, and taken his followers along, like the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
...When MacPartland does let loose with something like China Boy, Jazz Me Blues, etc., he faintly resembles Bix, but nowhere near enough to warrant the title of the article being "Like...
...pleasure to see TIME included in the very small group of publications which consistently and frequently doses its readers with healthy treatment No. 3. The Jimmy MacPartland story, as many previous such, is right in there...
...loudspeaker outside the Brass Rail Theater Bar, a smoky, crowded joint on Chicago's brassy Randolph Street, came hard, driving music. One old connoisseur who heard it stopped in his tracks and said, "My God. it's Bix." But the sign in the window said Jimmy MacPartland. It was Jimmy playing the golden cornet that Jazz Immortal Bix Beiderbecke had given him years...
...Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...