Word: riffs
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...result was sales that made the Victor people really take his contract seriously. Hawkins, visualizing it as just another fairly successful colored riff tune, had turned the rights over to Lewis Music Company. At this point, Glenn Miller, the biggest thing in bandom at the present time, decided that the arrangement would fit his heavy and intricate style, and persuaded Lewis Music Company (for certain pecuniary considerations) to give him sole broadcasting rights. He rearranged it, slowing it down, and made it a fifteen minute show-piece for his eight-man brass section--muted. Then every night for several weeks...
Earl Hines has a good one in "Riff Medley" due to the short but swell plano solo. Look out for this week's Victor release of his "Rosetta" as a piano....On the same disc is a solo that he cut ten years ago for Victor that was never released. Ought to be worth listening to....Jimmy Lunceford's stuff has suffered lately from bad recording, his platter of "Liza" being a good example...
...spent the following year in England as a Rodes Scholar, mixing academic with journalistic endeavor. Leaving Cambridge, he joined the Philadelphia Public Ledger, for which he covered the Greco-Turk War and the advent of Mussolini. In 1925 the New York Times sent him to report the Riff War. He was assigned successively to the Times' Vienna and Geneva bureaus, and after a year on their cable desk in New York he was sent back to take charge of the Geneva office. Although he is now on an indefinite leave of absence, he has been transferred to the paper...
...will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know"; "Study in Green" bears strange resemblances to one of Glenn Miller's riff tunes; "Midnight in Madhouse" has a large chunk of Ambrose's "Night Ride" present; "Chant of the Jungle" is an almost exact carbon of the old Casa Loma arrangement; these are just a few of Mr. Clinton's attempts at being original. Benny Goodman imitates Count Basic; but at least...
...generals seized power in Old Castile and Navarre, in the north, and in much of Andalusia, in the south. Their chosen leaders in order of authority were General José Sanjurjo, Marquis del Riff, General Manuel Goded, General Francisco Franco. General Sanjurjo was killed in an airplane crash near Lisbon, General Goded was captured, imprisoned and executed when he failed to take Barcelona. No. 3 of the original slate - General Franco - became head of the Rightist Army. Meanwhile, in turbulent Leftist Madrid, Premier Casares Quiroga stepped down, to be succeeded, in a day of whirlwind Cabinet shiftings, first...