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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...
...good example. Juan Tizol is probably one of the most unusual trombone men in the world. His solos, done on valve trombone, on such things as "Pyramid" are classics. Lawrence Brown and Joe Naughton are both great. Listen to the former's "Rose of the Rio Grande." The sax section is equal if not greater. Harry Carney on baritone sax has such an amazing technique that Duke very often doesn't score parts for him--just lets him ramble at will. Listen to "Azure" for some ramblings what am. Barney Bigard (clarinet) and Johnny Hodges (alto) are two more...