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...stature, Kirk's has its share of soloists, although it will be lacking two of the most eminent, who were playing when I last heard the orchestra several months ago--Bill Coleman, a sensitive trumpeter whose lip went bad on him, and Dick Wilson, a good tenor sax man who died last fall. Still, with Mary Lou Williams, certainly one of the greatest jazz women playing today, and hefty June Richmond to do the hot songs, Andy and his Clouds of Joy are unquestionably worth your while and your money. They have never quite attained the heights that Basie well...
...somewhat lesser interest is Georgie Auld's presence at the Jubilee. This band is rather new, and while it may not be as well integrated as Kirk's auld's tenor sax solos have been good listening and should make up most of the difference. It played here some weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive...
Auld, formerly lead tenor sax with Bennie Goodman and Artie Shaw, started his own orchestra about three months ago, and has been steadily on the upgrade ever since. He has already been recognized by swing circles as one of the coming commercial outfits, on the basis of his recordings and dance and theatre dates...
Although Karl Sax, professor of Botany, called his fellow Faculty members "faf, flabby, and pot-bollied," in a letter published yesterday, officials at the Hygiene Department maintained last night that only "a few men fall into this unfortunate classification...
Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, and director of the faculty conditioning class which Professor Sax attends regularly, take the stand however, that "they are more interested in their mental output than their physical well-being...