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This warning was part of the obbligato of talk which the Italians supplied all last week to the rumble of Nazi guns. It was broadcast over the Italian radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: No Pause | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...lead, and his cornet rips out what you'll recognize as the melody if you can follow the chord sequence. 'George Brunics makes a background foundation on trombone, long, deep, throaty notes which you won't ever hear Tommy Dorsey play. Pee Wee Russell is playing clarinet obbligato, weaving a jerky, almost insane pattern of dissonant, spit-laden phrases, companying his efforts with facial contortions that make you fear for his blood-pressure. And all the time, the rhythm section led by George Wetting's drums and Eddic Condon's guitar, is giving the boys a wonderful beat to work...

Author: By Charies Miller, | Title: SWING | 4/18/1941 | See Source »

Prize pupil of Denyn is Manhattan's Kamiel Lefevere. Daily he climbs the 335 feet to his crow's-nest in the Riverside Tower, dons his gloves and thumps his way through a bingety-bonging symphony. In winter the freezing wind howls a dismal obbligato through the Gothic masonry around his booth. In summer

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). For the hot library, especially notable for a fine trombone obbligato (by Bobby Byrne) behind the concluding solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Courtroom Obbligato (Sat. 7.30 p.m., CBS). Columbia Workshop sets Hilda Lawrence's night court stream of consciousness to Tom Bennett's music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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