Word: marsala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story starts in a London Club, and is told all night between bombs and sips of Marsala by a gentleman of seventy, quite unsteady on his feet. By chance he was fishing in the Jura Mountains when the Lowlands fell. He struck out for England in charge of the children of two English acquaintances, and on the way west he found it necessary to his conscience to pick up several more. They were a little French girl, an orphaned French boy, a derelict Dutch orphan, a ten-year-old Polish Jew who desired only to kill Germans, and ultimately...
...Know That You Know (Joe Marsala; Decca). The most straightforward hot clarinetist in the business and his clean little band do the honors to one of Vincent Youmans' great foxtrots. Mrs. Marsala gets off for a nice hot harp chorus...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Joe Marsala's brother Marty who plays a lot of trumpet, will be featured at the Beachcomber in Providence on Sunday. If you remember his work of the old Hiekery House days, you'll want to go and hear him... little Holiday's recent coupling of Georgia on My Mind and Let's Do It, is certainly above reproach, yet Billie just isn't the convincing singer she was a few years back. Columbia has been putting out a number of albums recently. Why don't they get up a Billie Holiday album which would include...
...exceptional local talent, there are always one or two guest stars. This Sunday it will be Hot Lips Page, as well as Roscoe McRae . . . Speaking of jam sessions, you can hear a pretty good recorded one on the four sides issued by the Commodore Music Shop. Band features Marty Marsala (trumpet), George Brunies (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), "Maurice" (known to his best friends as Fats Waller), Artie Shapiro (bass), Eddie Condon (guitar), and George Wettling (drums). Solos don't measure up to the standards set on the Teagarden date, but the musicians have a wonderful talent for getting together...
...quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same way that he ruined Artie Shaw two years ago, and Joe Marsala before that...