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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...
...York Philharmonic Scholarship School and for the past year the editor in charge of TIME'S music department (but not of this review), Winthrop Sargeant is not concerned in his Jazz: Hot and Hybrid* with the question of whether Benny Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant, "is the anonymous and musically illiterate expression...
Participating players, almost a Who's Who of topflight U. S. jammers, included Clarinetists Joe Marsala, Milton Mesirow, Peewee Russell; Saxophonists Bud Freeman, Sid Bechet; Cornetists Bobby Hackett, Hotlips Paige; Pianist Jess Stacey; Trombonist Tommy Dorsey; Drummers Dave Tough and Zutty Singleton. Present also were No. 1 Swing Pundit Hugues Panassié, grey-haired Blues-writer William Christopher Handy (St.Louis Blues, Memphis Blues). This prime assortment of talent bumped slightly at the takeoff, but in the final ensemble lived up to its big names...