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...hits: Stardust (which has earned Carmichael more than $250,000), Lazybones, Rockin' Chair, Two Sleepy People, Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief. His latest, Old Buttermilk Sky, last week was No. 6 on the Hit Parade...
Some of the greats of yesterday and the day before are still going strong. Among them: buxom Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, the best "white gal" blues singer of her time; contralto Connee Boswell; satin-voiced Maxine Sullivan; and the unhappy queen of the 52nd Street honky tonks, Billie (Strange Fruit) Holiday. Most of them have been around long enough to see several debutante classes come...
...Nanton's coda on "Black and Tan Fantasy." Nanton's plunger trombone, although sometimes exploited for comic effect, is my favorite voice in the Ellington band--especially so since Johnny Hodges has taken to playing only sentimentally, with every appearance as soloist winding up in an ever-softening fadeout. "Rockin' In Rhythm," as always, was a good, solid performance, and even Nance's fiddle couldn't mar the beauty of "Moon Mist...
Ellingtonia (Duke Ellington and his band; Brunswick; 8 sides). An anthology of some of Ellington's earlier, and most warm-spirited, recordings. Included: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo; Rockin' in Rhythm; Black & Tan Fantasy; Mood Indigo...
...spectacular sellout, is expected to net at least $5,000. Dressed in grey coats, each with a jet black carnation in his buttonhole, Ellington's 15 musicians played many such Ellington favorites as the Black and Tan Fantasy, Mood Indigo, Rockin' in Rhythm. Duke affably prowled before his men in his sweeping tails, conducting, adding neat phrases on the piano, introducing his numbers with graceful speeches. His music, as usual, was practically all by himself (with heavy contributions in orchestration and improvising from the boys). It was incandescent, original jazz, sometimes ebullient, sometimes languid, the product...