Word: sauter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nowadays, most bands get their special character from the arranger's musical personality, and the musicians just sit there and play the notes he writes. The most recent and one of the most original of the arrangers' bands, launched last week by Victor: the combination of Ed Sauter, 37, who wrote such items as Benny Rides Again and Superman for Goodman, and Bill Finegan, 35, who was on the staff of the Glenn Miller band for its whole four-year life...
...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
Hearing of this, a French observer remarked that if the Communists become conciliatory, it would only be reader pour mieux sauter, which might be very freely translated as: "When the cat purrs, it's about to pounce...