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According to your purse. We suggest skin guards as essential equipment inasmuch as every place in the vicinity is going to be jammed. . . Hotel Brunswick-The Marionette Room-tempo is a little faster than some of the other hotel rooms, but still much fun. Dancing is okeh. . . Hotel Lenox-the Blue Train. I have fond memories of the Blue Train after an especially noisy evening. Soft lights and similar stuff made it very pleasant, with good music as an added factor. Recommended as an oasis...
Back home in Manhattan, Sergeant Smith was soon in the big time, playing at Reisenweher's (as did the famed Original Dixieland Jazz Band), accompanying the great Mamie Smith on Okeh records, traveling the Keith Circuit with a band. Prohibition led him prosperously underground, and lovers of hot music flocked to hear him at Harlem's Pod's and Jerry's saloon as eagerly as early Christians to their interdicted devotions. So eminent a white jazz player as Saxophonist Bud Freeman has since declared him to be the best groove pianist a band could have...
...Armstrong, maestro of jazz, would be a good subject for one of his own songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year...
...realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis Armstrong records sold during the past year, that he is one of the few orchestra leaders whom radio has not overpopularized. Radio, as a matter of fact, is a little wary of his improvisations. Several times he has been switched quickly...
...best dance record of the month. By the River Sainte Marie and Running Between the Rain-Drops (Columbia)- Guy Lombardo pushes the manner which has earned the Hotel Roosevelt's cover charge. When Your Lover Has Gone and You Didn't Have To Tell Me (Okeh)-The first is the month's best tune. The piano in Sam Lanin's version provides a meaty undercurrent...