Word: miff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject of the story is Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols (Actor Kaye), a hot cornet and well-known bandleader of the late '20s, whose "Five Pennies" -Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden. Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins...
...CROSS OF BARON SAMEDI (502 pp.)-Richard Dohrman-Houghton Miff...
...rate of 1,000 a week, letters come in to let the Voice know it is being heard: New Zealand ("I have yet to hear a slush-pump [trombone] player who sends me more than Miff Mole"), Switzerland ("Thank you, Angel, for Oscar Petersen's Tenderly"), Poland ("more jamba, boogie"). No letters have been received from Russia, but Manager King heard the program while visiting Moscow and suspects that it is being taped for the benefit of Russian jazzmen who want to learn U.S. arrangements. In Hungary the Voice learned that there is a jazz band that tapes...
...Tribute to Jazz, Ltd. (Jazz, Ltd. LP). A Chicago jive joint honors itself. Trombonist Miff Mole, Trumpeter Doc Evans & Co. provide the music: Tin Roof Blues, High Society, Jazz Me Blues, Charleston, done at length (eight minutes each) in easygoing Dixieland style...
...morning last week, after 53-year-old Jimmy had eaten breakfast, says Mama, "he just up and died." _ When Mama spread the word about Jimmy's last wish, 26 jazzmen called in, offering to play at his funeral. Four were chosen: Lee Collins and Jimmy Ilia, trumpets; Miff Mole, trombone; and Jimmy Granato, clarinet...