Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crescent's 1,500 pressings of two Kid Ory discs (Creole Song; South, Get Out of Here; Blues for Jimmy) were sold out soon after the release. They were made in Los Angeles with the help of an authentic Dixieland ensemble-including Trumpeter Edward ("Mutt") Carey, who weathered the sweet-arrangement era as a Pullman porter. The recordings, a mixture of Congo barrelhouse and Creole sauce, are probably as close as anything ever put on wax to the spirit of old Storyville, New Orleans' once-gaudy bawdyhouse district...
...hunt has been one of the quietest and best-organized in history. Its headquarters is a big, bemapped office in the Geological Survey in Washington. Its chief strategists are a Mutt & Jeff pair: lean, untidy Survey Director William Embry Wrather, who looks like a country schoolteacher, and chubby, loud-tied Chief Geologist Gerald Francis Loughlin. Since 1938 the Survey has sent forth hundreds of prospecting parties to promising fields from Alaska to Latin America. They have hunted for copper in Vermont, bauxite in Alabama, zinc in Wisconsin, oil in Alaska. In the past year alone the geologists have made more...
Benitin y Eneas: Mutt and Jeff...
...Play. The Museum directors had a still more ambitious idea. They decided to surround Bunk with colleagues from the New Orleans past. They found Papa Mutt Carey, famous "dirty" trumpeter, working as a Pullman porter on the Southern Pacific. They got Kid Ory, greatest of oldtime tailgate* trombonists, from Los Angeles, where he had been raising chickens. They tracked down Clarinetist Wade Whaley at the Moore shipyards on San Francisco Bay. Ringing doorbells in San Francisco's Negro section, they finally located Bertha Gonsoulin, onetime pianist for Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver. They added local Negro talent...
...rackets in gas coupons have been the most flagrant of all, are bound to get worse as the oil-rich west is subjected to rationing. In New York City OPA broke up a gas-coupon pool that sounded like the Al Capone days, included gangsters called "Red," "Lefty," "The Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them from each other. OPA got its first big clue from frisking a murdered gangster in Queens who had not" had the foresight...