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...that here was an occurrence above and beyond the usual order of things. From thence and in the following order "Sweet Sue," "Blues in B Flat," "Tea for two," "Ja Da," and "The Sheik" were attacked. One of the reed men, a startling cross between Johnny Dodds and Joe Marsala blasted out a machine gun-like obligatto in answer to the adept growlings of the slip horn, while the cornetist, feeling no doubt that he was being attacked from both sides, lashed out wildly with punchy, agitated jabs. During these gyrations, the pianist managed the almost superhuman job of bringing...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...
...Collapse. The campaign in western Sicily was all but over. Other ports fell: Marsala and Trapani, naval bases where there was no Italian Navy and no fight on land; Termini, Imerese and Cefalú, east of Palermo on the upper coastal route to Messina and Italy. In twelve days the Seventh Army had fought for its beachheads in southwestern Sicily, fought inland past Barrafranca (see p. 34}, fought for Caltanissetta and (with the Canadians) for Enna in central Sicily. After that, the Italian Army in western Sicily simply quit fighting. Two divisions, the 206th Coastal and 4th Livorno...
...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...