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Sears' search for a new direction is overdue. The firm's earnings last year slid by a hefty 12.1%. Standard & Poor's has downgraded Sears corporate bonds from AAA to AA. Says Chicago Retailing Analyst John Landschulz of Mesirow & Co.: "Sears has been resting on its laurels for a decade. They need a complete merchandising overhaul...
...face of this situation the efforts of the Lowell Freshmen purists are all the more commendable. They're well on their way toward obtaining the necessary angels and permission, and some Saturday soon they hope to have Art Hodes and his band, including Mezz Mesirow, down from the Lawrence Hofbrau, for an afternoon-long jam session. As Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller used to say, "Freude...
Perhaps the most convincing flaw in the fantasy of the Chicago style's existence today, is the wide discrepancy in the styles of the Chicagoans. Contrast, for example, Pee-wee Russell and Mezz Mesirow, who is in partial retirement from his music, the "dirty" clarinet and the pure, reminiscent of New Orleans...
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...
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