Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hinton is the bass man that has made the pickup combinations that Lionel Hampden has been using for his Victor records really sound like something. If you want to hear fast bass work that will make Bob Haggert (Bob Crosby's band) look to his laurels as king-pin of the broken rhythm stylists, Hinton has a concerto, "Plucking the Bass," released last week on Vocalion, that will really make you sit up and take notice. Barker is the new trumpet man Calloway added only a short while ago and plays much in the manner of Roy Eldridge. Jefferson...
...special telescope from a mountain in the Pyrenees, managed to chart the corona of the uneclipsed sun, and Bell Telephone Laboratories have lately designed an instrument called the "Coronaviser," which sidetracks the light from the body of the sun, then scans the prominences and corona with a television pickup. But nothing equals one of Nature's own blackouts...