Word: sax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first consists of four twelve-inch sides issued by the Hot Record Society, and which I was unable to review when they were released six weeks ago. The band playing is called Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, and includes Teagarden, Rex Stewart (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), and Dave Tough (drums). The tunes are: St. James' Infirmary, Shine, The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise, and Big Eight Blues...
Superlative number two is Roscoe McRae, who plays tenor sax with the Jones Brothers' band at the Savoy on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Now the Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with...
...Burns and Pete Sax fall within the 175-pound bracket. Dug has wrestled in every meet so far, and has lost his bout in only one. Heavyweights Howle Gleason, Doug DeCoster, Dave Vaughan, Bob Burns, and John Corrigan are the present rivals for the top group. Glesson and DeCoster have wrestled in two meets apiece, while 175-pound Pete Sax has fought one scrap for the heavies...
...Back to San Quentin, and Scarlatti would have appreciated what harpsichordist Johnny Guarneri does to some of his own ideas (VICTOR)...Benny Goodman's latest twelve inch recording, Superman, is another elaborate Eddie Sauter orchestration, and features Cootie Williams pyrotechnics all the way through. There's also some tenor sax by Georgie Auld, who gets the same dirty tone out of his horn that Benny likes to use (COLUMBIA)... Metronome's 1941 All Star band has recorded One O'Clock Jump and Bugle Call Rag for VICTOR. Coupling can't help but be good, but unfortunately they have to squeeze...
...band yet myself, but I'll guarantee you can't go wrong on Red (He calls me Charlie) . . . Benny Goodman's twelve-inch coupling features a number of things, including Helen Forrest singing The Man I Love, Benny's clarinet, a bit of Cootie's trumpet, the best sax section in the world, and some extremely imaginative orchestration by Eddie Sauter on the reverse, Benny Rides Again. On the latter, Sauter ignores any conventional form and just lets his mood carry him away--with the help of the band (COLUMBIA). . . George Avakian, of Yale and Columbia Records, recently...