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Against this strong aggregation are matched three boats of unknown quality. the Tech forces will enter a beat composed of accelerated rowers who will be pulling their last race for the engineers. Boston University's power is likewise unknown, but it received a swift shot last week when jay McRae, their colored stroke returned to number eight sweep...
Last week, when I mentioned Roscoe McRae at the Savoy, I merely touched on a subject which should have been given thorough treatment long ago, namely jazz in Boston. Not that there's an awful lot of it running around in this town, for it appears that every type of interest in hot music has been discouraged by a Beantown public whose taste for swing is at least negligible and at the utmost hostile. That's their business, of course. If the majority prefers Ruby Newman and Jack Marshard, and tolerates an occasional Count Basie one-nighter, then...
Superlative number two is Roscoe McRae, who plays tenor sax with the Jones Brothers' band at the Savoy on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Now the Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with...
...afternoon jam session at the Crown Hotel. These sessions have been extremely popular for the past few weeks, and in addition to plenty of 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...
...informer. Gossiping Crackers then remembered that their Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers has at least two unremitting foes: 1) Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, whom the Governor recently outsmarted in a PWA hospital deal; 2) clever, eerie-eyed Gene Talmadge, who is still up & doing in retirement at McRae, Ga. Governor Rivers and Uncle George get along all right...