Word: sax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sometimes I'm Happy" by Benny Goodman and his band (Victor--recorded in 1935). Acclaimed by French jazz critic Huges Panassic as "the greatest ensemble record by a white band," this is a diso with excellent ensembles, some beautiful sax solo work by Vido Musso, piano by Jesse Stacy, and the band playing in a soft style that it was very shortly to lose for four years...
Webster N. Jones '42 and Karl J. Sax '40, the two skiers who nearly lost their lives last weekend in a Mount Washington blizzard, were today well on the read to recovery, although there is still the possibility that Jones will lose one or two toes...
...Sax, who descended the mountain Saturday, is in Stillman Infirmary, while Jones is still in a Littleton hospital. The latter was lost for some 80 hours in a sub-zero gale and is badly frostbitten but in excellent spirits...
...Johnny Mince . . . Woody Herman's "Blues on Parade" okeh, but not as good as had hoped it would be . . . Count Basie's "I Left My Baby" a swell side of blues with Jimmy Rushing doing better singing than he has done for quite some time. Lester Young on sax gives him good backing . . . This new bass player that Duke Ellington found is really sensational. Listen to "Plucked Again" wherein he plays a duet with the Duke. It's quite something...
...weeks, so we don't have too much information on it. Main reason for the reorganization was that the payroll was the heaviest to date for a new band and was just too much to carry. "Big Gate" had to let Charlie Spivak (trumpet) go, also Ernie Cascares (alto sax), and Red Bone (trombone...