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...rest of Mama's plans were complete: Jimmy would be driven off to the cemetery with the Dixieland quartet leading the way. On the way and at the grave, the boys would play High Society, Muskrat Ramble, Jazz Me Blues, and anything else they thought Jimmy might like. But they would finish up with Nearer, My God, to Thee, in hymn tempo. That was Mama's idea...
Most of the stars in this constellation rose, if not from rags to riches, at least from muskrat to mink. They are good-looking, by & large intelligent, hard-working and talented. Yet, in the telescopes of the stargazers, none of them shows up with that special and undefinable brightness that was the glamor of Hollywood's great stars...
...evening of the concert I was warming up my chops getting ready to lay all that good fine jive like Muskrat Ramble to Lazy River and on down the line -which 'killed em..... I noticed that everything I'd run down on my trumpet -this kid would sing it and I mean he really would sing it..... So when I finished the tune I wheeled around to Ray and said -'Gate' during my concerts I want you to come out and sing Stormy Weather..... 'Oh Gawd' -that kid almost turned 'my colour...
Other bandleaders decided to take a ride too. Phil Harris cut in with Muskrat Ramble and Walk with a Wiggle, planned also to make his next album with a New Orleans beat. Tommy Dorsey hastily reassembled his old Clambake Seven to record Way Down Yonder in New Orleans and Tiger Rag. Gene Krupa parked his successful 16-piece band, picked up a six-man crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong...
...clear across the runways of Rome's Ciampino airport last week came the brassy Dixieland chatter of Muskrat Ramble, swung by "The Roman New Orleans Band." Teen-age Italian hepcats, backed by placards of "Welcome Louie," were beating out a solid welcome for American Jazz Potentate Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong and his All-Stars.* On the last lap of his first grand European tour since 1935, Satchmo had found solid welcomes and solid houses wherever he landed. In Stockholm, 40,000 fans welcomed him at the airport; thousands waited in line all night to get tickets for his concert. Stockholm...