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Toward Salamaua. At one minute past midnight, through high waves buffeting them across treacherous reefs, assault boats slid onto the sand along Nassau Bay, twelve miles below Salamaua. Hovering offshore in a choppy sea were the slim, nervous shapes of Navy PT boats. Whispering troops swarmed ashore. No Japs opposed them. Patrols fanned out to the north and south, feeling for the enemy...
...Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...
...airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines, Author White lets Frank Kurtz and his crew talk of those dark, terrible days...
...Pine Top album is even more tempting, particularly as it consists of only two records. The first one, "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" and "Pine Top's Blues" however, has been reissued previously by UMCA-Commodore for the same price, if you can find it. PT, as you probably know, is one of the acknowledged originators of BW, though there is still plenty of argument going on. Regardless of whether he did or didn't, Pine Top is undeniably one of the most remarkable jazz pianists. His BW is strong and flexible, but it never skims the surface like Kenneth...
...most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date...