Word: ross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This jabberwockian fantasy is not the handiwork of a beat generation poet, but the nightly stock in trade of the nation's slickest new vocal group-the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross trio. In Los Angeles' Crescendo Club last week, the three performers triple-tongued their way through these lines (to Everyday) and half a dozen other numbers. What they were up to was a startling vocal and verbal imitation of instrumental jazz, particularly the big-band style of the 1930s. The whisky drinkers, like the trio's record fans, dug the act with the fervor...
...swinging, word-for-note versions of arrangements by such famed big bands as Count Basic, Jimmy Lunceford, Duke Ellington. Jon Hendricks himself composes most of the lyrics, which are supposed to approximate-in sound and sense-the instrumental feel of the original band arrangement. Example: last week Singer Annie Ross, cast in the role of "brass," opened with the line "Dig Count Basie blow Joe's blues away," was seconded by the "reeds" (Hendricks, Arranger Dave Lambert) with the line "Blow Joe's blues away." After that the two sections sang together in a bouncing counterpoint, with...
Strength of his Convictions. In Ross-on-Wye, England, John Wanklyn waited to appear in court for drunkenness, stepped out during the court's lunchtime adjournment, drank five pints of beer, four pints of cider, four shots of Scotch...
...chairman in 1952-53 of the federal Subversive Activities Control Board. Last summer the Brown committee drafted a report blasting the Supreme Court's 1956-58 security decisions so harshly that Chief Justice Warren resigned from the A.B.A. (his resignation became final a fortnight ago). A.B.A. President Ross Malone stressed last week that in adopting the Brown committee's recommendations, the House of Delegates was not okaying its critical report...
Qualifications. In Barrie, Ont., while checking an illegally parked taxi, police discovered that Driver Ross Grant had no operator's license, no municipal taxi license, and received a pension from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind...