Word: sauter
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...Glittering in the colored lights was an instrument few jive cats had ever seen-a harp, and across the back gleamed a picket fence of big tubular chimes. Altogether there were 21 players and 77 instruments, with ten microphones scattered among them. A spectacled, shy young man named Eddie Sauter-one of the leaders of the band-wrote something on a slate and held it up for all the players to see. They went into Moonlight on the Ganges the way it had never been heard before on the shores of Lake Michigan, the Mississippi, the Hudson, the Nile...
...Honey Jump (Sauter-Finegan Orchestra; Victor). A riffing tune performed by a relatively new band with plenty of polish. The vocal on the other side is Time to Dream, sung by Baritone Joe Mooney, who likes to squeeze his words out one by one. The suspense is unjustified...
...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...