Word: pomeroys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every point was illustrated by one or more of the 16 Negro and white musicians in the Pomeroy band--all of them skilled enough so that they not only play in their own personal style but were able to imitate with uncanny authenticity all the different styles and idiosyncrasies of the other great players of the past and present...
Last Thursday a crowd of over 16,000 turned out to hear "A Living History of Jazz," with John McLellan as narrator and the Herb Pomeroy jazz band as illustrator. McLellan's commentary had plenty of meat but was not too technical for the layman. He gave a splendid survey of the origin of jazz, its evolution into a craft and finally an art-form...
Fletcher, who seems to have been the 'Poon's only sword during our generation, has a nicely constructed little tale about tattered Tweek, boy of the streets, who achieves SUCCESS by spitting his chwing gum in the path of rich J. Pomeroy's spinning Cadillac wheel. But let the reader find for himself why! Mr. Biddle's reflections, while gay in spirit, read like a census of Mount Auburn Cemetery, and seem grossly out of place. But at least they are interesting and even pleasant...
...Jazz Workshop Quintet will also perform. It has been at the Stable for eight months, and includes a former trumpet player for Stan Kenton, Herb Pomeroy. Lumbard described the Quintet's music as progressive jazz...
...Vivian T. Pomeroy of the First Parish Church (Unitarian) in Milton will officiate at a memorial service in honor of the late Bliss Perry, former Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus, at 4 p.m. tomorrow in Appleton Chapel. Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will assist Rev. Pomeroy...