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...just the man to do it. He was Fat's great friend and prime pianistic inspiration, James Price Johnson. Genial, blue-black Jimmie worked out on a Steinway at one of Guitarist Eddie Condon's rousing jazz concerts in Manhattan's Town Hall, played a medley of Fats Waller's tunes including Honeysuckle Rose, Clothesline Ballet, Ain't Misbehavin'. He played them the way Fats would have wanted them played...
...shut out Tufts completely in the 1000-yard run, taking first, second, and third. In the relay events they were equally successful. The sprint relay, in which each of the four men runs 440 yards, fell to the Mikkolamen, and this victory was followed by another in the medley relay of one, two, three, and four laps in succession...
Events at the meet will include a 300-yard medley, 220-yard medley, 50-yard medley, fancy dive, 100-yard swim, 150-yard backstroke. 200-yard breaststroke, 440-yard free style, and a 400-yard relay...
This matter of orchestration is almost as important as composition; the medley of Ellington favorites was served up in a hectic, pretentious hash in which only "Mood Indigo" appeared in the form we love so well, and the separate original versions of the tunes in the medley remained invariably far superior. In the matter of composition, the contrast was sharp, but I hesitate to pass judgement so readily...
Following the address and the Benediction, the band will play as a postlude the "Salute to Servicemen" medley of patriotic airs, under the direction of Chief John A. Jacobson...