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...Know" by the Carter band itself is swell, as is the reverse "Shuffiebug Shuffle." Why this fine band isn't given more work is more than this writer can figure out . . . Buster Balley's "Chained To A Dream," recorded when the John Kirby band was still at the Onyx Club, has a few too many pretty trills for me, although it does show off the amazingly pure symphonic tone that Buster can get on clarinet when he wants to. The reverse of "San Juan Hill" is by one of the small Duke Ellington groups and is much better than usual...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...
Married. Helen Carroll, 23, beauteous radio songstress ("the Merry Macs"), and famed hot Guitarist Carl Kress, 32, operator of The Onyx, famed hot Manhattan night spot; in Manhattan...
...swing a cat, the "cats" swing the room late and loud. Headquarters for swing is Manhattan's sand Street with its solid block of night spots (during speakeasy days, an irate 5 2nd Street householder defensively posted a sign reading "Private House"). On 52nd Street is The Onyx Club, Swing's self-styled "cradle," where Crooner Maxine Sullivan hops things up; The Famous Door, where Trumpeter Louis Prima lays siege to the eardrums; Jack White's 18 Club, which goes in for bughouse antics, wisecracks, catcalls, pranks and late hours; The Hickory House, where the "cats...
Pastel Blue (John Kirby; Decca). Manhattan's famed Onyx Club's little band plays homemade low-down music; blues-of-the-month...