Word: sax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jimmy McPartland and his band; Brunswick LP). Trumpeter McPartland undertakes the touchy task of recapturing the style and feeling of the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, in the process socks out some fine Dixieland jazz. The combo, a duplication of Bix's own Gang (including a hoarse-voiced baritone sax), gets a lift from the inspired drumming of George Wettling...
...Chinese gong. Saxophone players switched to flutes, clarinets and even recorders; Sauter himself picked up a kazoo and produced sounds very much like bagpipes. Again the slate and another tune: The Doodletown Fifers. Two men played the piccolo, two the baritone saxophone, one the tenor saxophone. Then the three sax players put down their instruments and whistled. By the time they picked them up again, the second piccolo had switched to tenor sax, quickly moved on to flute, then back to piccolo...
...Angeles, in a "deliberately arranged mismatch," John Barber, 6 ft. 6 in. center for Los Angeles State College, playing nothing but offense, scored 188 points in a basketball game against Los Angeles' Chapman College. Final score: 208-82. The game, explained State College Coach Sax Elliott, was his answer to Rio Grande's Bevo (116 points) Francis...
Villanova's Fred Dwyer, unbeaten against all comers, set a meet record in the mile with a time of 4:08.1. In the 6000, Penn State's Ollie Sax also set a new time...
Mulligan's kind of sound is just about unique in the jazz field: his quartet uses neither piano nor guitar, does its work with trumpet, bass, drums and, of course, Mulligan's hoarse-voiced baritone sax. In comparison with the frantic extremes of bop, his jazz is rich and even orderly, is marked by an almost Bach-like counterpoint. As in Bach, each Mulligan man is busily looking for a pause, a hole in the music which he can fill with an answering phrase. Sometimes the polyphony is reminiscent of tailgate blues, sometimes it comes tumbling with bell...