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Pete Brown and Frankie Newton were the heroes of the day, Brown working the hardest and longest, and playing better than ever before, Newton saving the concert at an awkward moment with superb showmanship. The finest music in the session came when they jammed together with three former members of Frankie's band, the Trottman brothers on piano and bass, and Billy Mason on drums. The outfit blended perfectly and the ensembles were terrific...
...thing was plain. From now on, Newton should be allowed to supervise the sessions. There was a bad moment when the M. C. walked off the stage to look for Hawkins and Brown so that all could jam the final number together. Frankie saved the day by just tootling a few notes, and before you knew it, everyone was going full blast. At the conclusion, he got up and started walking off the stage, playing all the time, and everyone followed. It was tremendously effective...
...expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's Band minus Teddy but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, Trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett, drums, and Emmettt Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trooman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...
Godfather of the Foreign Affairs Council was Cleveland's famed adopted son, Newton Diehl Baker. In 1923 he helped launch it as the Council for the Prevention of War, watched it lead a haphazard existence until 1934. Then, to an earnest, handsome young man of 34 who was teaching foreign affairs at Yale, he wrote: "The problem we are interested in is . . . that form of adult education about foreign and national affairs which will be so consecutive, continuous and disinterested as to make the whole people . . . conscious at the same time of the same set of facts. . . . Instead...
...expanded to more than double the size of the last one. Definitely coming are, hold your breath: Coleman Hawkins and Pete Brown again; Teddy Wilson's band minus Teddy, but including Edmund Hall, clarinet, Benny Morton, trombone, Johnny Williams, bass, Sidney Catlett drums, and Emmett Berry, trumpet; Frankie Newton and some of his old band, such as Ernie Trottman, and possibly Vic Dickenson...