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...concert's most musicianly talent was half-blind Art Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cafe Society Concert | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...student who turned to singing as a gag, and while making fortunes in cinema, the radio and the phonograph record business, has operated a race track, a horse farm, had an interest in two prize fighters and a girls' baseball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Sounding limbo. In Dallas, Tex., James E. Ferrell produced a tombstone that talks: to hear the dead speak, mourners needed only to play the record of his voice on the phonograph set in the stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...first floor has a large common room equipped with magazines and chess boards, a study room, a radio and phonograph room, and the cafeteria itself. In the basement are a large locker room and a ping-pong room...

Author: By Dana Reed, | Title: NON-RESIDENTS FEED, RELAX AT CENTER IN DUDLEY HALL | 2/25/1941 | See Source »

...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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