Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the band will play in Symphony Hall, the transcription will be made over a wire connected directly with Station WCOP. Because of Musician's Union Leader James C. Petrillo's attitude toward amateur recordings, it is doubtful that the records will be available to the public...
...First Annual Exhibition of Art by Musicians" opened last week at Manhattan's Museum of Science and Industry. Master of Ceremonies was Composer Deems Taylor, whose own efforts suggested to observers that he had best leave the silent arts to such an accomplished brushman as Chairman H. S. Maurer (violinist at Radio City Music Hall). Said Taylor at sight of Chairman Maurer's portrait of Nora: "My God, the man who did that must be a lousy musician...
...better songs of the day with husband Red Norvo's baud. It was on Vocalion, though, that Mildred really cut loose and made an epic series of records. She had everything her own way. She sang old songs, new ones, anything good. For accompaniment she got the best musicians available. Some of them, like Teddy Wilson, Artic Shaw, Chu Berry are well known; others, like Hank d'Amico, Chris Griffin are not. But the most ignominious musician on her dates complemented Mildred's singing and not incidentally produced good jazz. In fact, John Kirby's band has never played quite...
When competent musicians are fired for playing two sour notes, there is no decent reason why a female vocalist should get by with singing like a crow. There are plenty of other reasons, but they count for little on a record. Every musician in the late Glenn Miller's band was expert, yet the firing rate was tremendous. Marion Hutton couldn't hit a note with a sledge-hammer, yet she sang with Miller for over four years. Few will deny that Marion was a highly desirable little morsel. She had, moreover, a prodigious personality that carried her over long...
...take the present darling, Dinah Shore. She is undoubtedly a far more capable singer than Hutton, especially in projecting her personality through radio and records. In the main, though, hers is a very limited and pedestrian talent compared with even the average swing musician's. Dinah's best interpretations are expressly designed for romance, and she is more than adept. Other times she signs pleasantly, if that well. If you like her, fine. But if you can listen to Benny Goodman, can separate the slag from the gold, and still like Dinah, your standards are inconsistent...