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...every type of interest in hot music has been discouraged by a Beantown public whose taste for swing is at least negligible and at the utmost hostile. That's their business, of course. If the majority prefers Ruby Newman and Jack Marshard, and tolerates an occasional Count Basie one-nighter, then all I can say is that this is still a democracy. However, to that minority--particularly around Harvard--to whom jazz music means a little bit more than Glenn Miller, I can say that things are looking up. So today I'd like to mention three groups in town...
Well, Count Basie isn't going with Goodman after all, and I guess the boys in the band felt pretty good about it last Monday, when they were doing a one-nighter at the noisy, smoke-filled Eggleston Gardens. Now that kind of atmosphere is right up the Basie alley, and consequently they played jazz as I've never heard them play it before...
...Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA's Boogie-Woogie Album. Best of the records is Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet of Guy Kelly, as well as Albert's own rolling bass... Benny Goodman of 1940, heard at his Totem-Pole one nighter, is one of the biggest things in jazz since the Goodman of 1936... Highlights: Cootie Williams with the Sextet, playing half an hour straight, including Honeysuckle Rose and a lot of fast blues... Benny will go to Rochester Sunday, where he and the Sextet will be featured with the Rochester...
...Actor & actress: Don Ameche, Barbara Luddy (First Nighter star replacing Claire Trevor...
...Hobby Lobby is an NBC Wednesday nighter that now sells Fels-Naptha soap chips by rounding up collector's items in hobbyists. In its time, it has cluttered NBC's elegant Radio City studios with all sorts of oddities ranging from a man whose hobby was training parrots not to talk to one whose idea of diversion was letting people break paving stones on his head. There have been casualties of sorts. The paving stone idea, for example, looked a little risky to NBC. Chips from the granite, flying out from under the sledge hammer, might have...