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...session will take up the first half of the program, a swing contest, to determine Harvard's leading swingster, will occupy the second half. The Network held a similar program last May in which Count Basie and his blues singer, Jimmy Rushing, were featured. At this time two tenor sax men, Joe Dunn and Gene Burgstaller, were crowned University swing champs, but both of them have left school...
Died. Thomas F. Dorsey Sr., 70, music teacher and school bandmaster, father of famed Swingsters Tommy (trombone) and Jimmy (sax & clarinet); in Philadelphia. He started giving his sons woodwind lessons when they were little boys...
...Sax, W. P. '44; Sharlitt, J. H.; Smith, E. W.; Swan...
...tinkled along behind him at the piano. But in the excitement of the occasion don't forget the local boys who made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than one fine chorus that night. The ones I have in mind particularly are George Springer, whose trumpet led the rideout finals with much gusto...
...large number of the University's swingsters have already indicated their intention to show up. Among the leading contenders are guitarist Edward E. Hunt Jr. '43, and tenor-sax men Eugene F. Burgstaller '43 and Joseph A. Dunn...