Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acquired ensemble discipline. It seems more successful with the works of Hungarian composers (Bartok, Kodaly) than in the standard repertory, stronger in the string section than in the brasses. To beef up the brass, Conductor Rozsnyai recently hired four Austrians; he also recruited an American violinist, clarinetist and horn player...
...Jazz). Thirteen of the dapper, low-keyed arrangements that have made Drummer Hamilton an important figure in the jazz of the West Coast. There are such oldies as September Song (in which the theme is only obliquely hinted at in the bass), but more new numbers such as Bass Player Carson Smith's Chanel #5, which is shot through with a wistful flute solo...
...neighborhood barstool habitues. Coleman. a 27-year-old former child prodigy from The Bronx, decided to launch the room chiefly because he lived up the street, wanted a nearby showcase for his piano, and was tired of working for other people. He signed up a drummer and a bass player, opened seven months ago. He plays when the urge hits him or when the unadorned, beige-upholstered room is comfortably filled. A pianist of infinitely varied beat and volume, he is as effective on lacy, lilting numbers like My One and Only Love as he is on a stomping, heavily...
Last week the London press got wind of the story of the princess and the piano player and spread it all over their front pages. In Stockholm, Baron Carl-Reinhold von Essen, Master of the Royal Household, made a formal statement: "It was a little innocent affair in London, as so often happens between young people, and the whole matter was declared ended with the Princess Sibylla's reply to the Englishman's letter of proposal. This reply was very polite but definite. The proposal was, from the Swedish viewpoint, to be considered impossible...
When Segni took office, the four-party coalition which had dominated Italy since 1953 was falling apart. Wispy-white-maned Antonio Segni, who looks like a Shakespearean bit-player on short rations, seemed the last man in the world to repair it. To everyone's surprise, he promptly staged one of the most skillful displays of dosaggio (division of offices among rival factions) in postwar Italian history, not only revived the coalition but even managed to push through Parliament a series of overdue measures...