Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Naval Reserve Lieut. Eddy Duchin, peacetime bandleader and silk-smooth jazz pianist, was made an antisub warfare officer aboard a vessel of the destroyer escort fleet. One of his jobs: analyzing the unmusical notes produced by a subdetector...
...Banner," a quartet of staff and students sang three numbers of old fashioned harmony, and Dr. Cornet led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert led a parody on the faculty members, including one on himself, after which Lt. Anspach, concert pianist, played two selections of a more serious nature. Lt. Tirico and Mrs. Anita Clarke Richmond each sang several selections and a duet, Lt. Tirico included a love song called "Les Trois Fils D'Or" by Colonel Fox, accompanied by Mrs. Biggs on the piano and Colonel Fox on the violin...
...weighs over 270 lb. That mass helps to account for the great strength of his basses, and makes his playing look as magisterial as it sounds. Whether he plays a stomping Dinah or lazy variations on When My Baby Smiles at Me, no other pianist gives quite his impression of commanding ease. Musicians he plays with sense it instantly, ease up themselves...
...enthusiastic friends included Marcel Dupré, onetime organist of Notre Dame Cathedral. With Dupré, Fats climbed into the Notre Dame organ loft where "first he played on the god box, then I played on the god box." In Paris Fats also came into cultural contact with a fellow pianist and expatriate named "Steeplehead" Johnson. Fats got home from the French capital by wiring Irving Berlin for funds...
...Mary Lou: "I don't feel right all by myself. I need the band there to back me up." For no less than twelve years she had one of the best Negro bands back of her: Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy. She was Kirk's pianist from New York's Famous Door and Cotton Club to Chicago's Grand Terrace, Kansas City's Lone Star and Los Angeles' Paramount theater. And while the band backed up Mary Lou, she backed up the band. She wrote most of its arrangements, and many...