Word: savoyism
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Friends and fellow Conservatives reserved a dining room in London's Savoy Hotel for a golden jubilee dinner. Guest of honor: Winston Churchill, who was first elected to Parliament...
With the Hi-Hat offering swing groups only occasionally, Everctt's Parkway Club closed, and the Tic-Toc temporarily defunct, Katherine Donahue's Savoy looks to be the last "home of jazz" around stolid Boston. But William L. "Wild Bill" Davison is currently blowing his lungs out at the Savoy, and everyone--especially Miss Donahue--is happy...
Sometimes an "all-star" combination comes off; sometimes it doesn't. This one, funneled into the Savoy from New Orleans and Chicago by way of Eddie Condon's in New York, has divergencies of style that detract from its ensemble playing, though the individual performances are good...
Incidentally, the Savoy has recently had its face lifted, but the air is still filled with last year's cigarette smoke--and the music is better than ever...
Last Wednesday evening the Stompers took over the Savoy stand as house band and Sunday afternoon hocked up with Wild Bill Davison, king-put of Dixieland hornmen, in a jam session royal...