Word: rockin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin' Chair, it was hard for oldtimers to believe that Louis or jazz were ever better...
...years ago, Mildred Bailey lowered her mountainous bulk into her niece's tot-sized red rocking chair to pass the time of day with friend Hoagy Carmichael. When she tried to get up, the chair got up with her. Said Mildred with a laugh: "This ol' rockin' chair's got me, I guess." A month later, Composer Carmichael had finished the song that made Mildred famous...
...rockin' chair's got me Cane by my side Fetch me that gin, son 'Fore I tan yo hide...
Last week, Mildred was still rocking the customers with her Rockin' Chair. In the Manhattan basement called Café Society, she made the fans wait for what they had all come to hear. Not a pound under weight (at 190) in a shroudlike black gown, her swarthy features and shoe-button eyes gleaming in the spotlight, she teased them first with a couple of new ones - but in the familiar, sweetly sighing Bailey style. ("I couldn't sing big if I wanted to.") When they kept roaring for it, she finally gave them Rockin' Chair with...
...plum-plush opera house, they heard jazz from seven nations, including three brands of U.S. stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans really got what they came for. A forest of microphones carried the music over the French national radio, the BBC, Swiss. Belgian and Monte Carlo stations, the Finnish, Polish and Swedish...