Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Williams lost Saturday to Yale when the Elis scored two goals in the first seven minutes before the strong Williams defense settled down. For the rest of the game play was even, and the score at the end was 3-1 in favor of the Blue...
...These artists, it happens, can play beautifully in a room, but still they have not achieved fame," he stated...
Describing his role of Sheridan White-side as "an actor's dream," Woolley said however that the part "may resemble Alexander Woolcott, but is certainly not a portrait of him." He considers that the play has been much improved since Kaufman and Hart did the third act over: "The audience expects laughs all the way through, and now they get them...
...wandered into a session at the Moonglow on 145th Street (highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm...
...cats' meow: This week Red Norvo announced that he was sick and tired of the cut-throat competition in jazz and the necessity of playing what he considered to be rotten music in order to get a lot of work, and announced that he was from now on going to work only a few nights a week, make records, and that he was going to take postgraduate work at Juillard Institute in New York just for the fun of it! There are too few guys like this who want to play good, relaxed music so much that they will give...