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...that as soon as Cab stepped off the stage, there was nothing there but a rather noisy brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
Lately there has been an enormous influx of new bands into the industry, usually led by someone who has achieved fame playing trumpet, trombone, or sax with some big band. Most of these outfits have folded or are in the process of doing so. Even bands with large names and backing before they began, such as Harry James and Jack Teagarden, are finding things pretty rocky...
...band was going to be completely different from anything he had used before. Now confirmation comes of all our predictions. A few days ago Artie Shaw recorded four sides for Victor at their Hollywood studies with a thirty-one piece band. In addition to the usual six brass, four sax, four rhythm, and Shaw, they added eight violins, three violas, two cellos, flute, oboe, bass clarinet and French horn. Victor says, "Despite the full combination, Shaw will remain (sie ! ! !) in the swing idiom. With the extra musicians, he plans to enhance his style with tone colors and effects, heretofore unattained...
...Freeman never stays seated long, keeps popping up to jot down more bits of Manhattery. His drawings and paintings have the same crowded vitality that Cruikshank and Leech got into their illustrations of Dickens' London, the same knack of making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under...
...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...