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...real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...
...band. The Smoker Committee has been diving in and out of every dance spot in the section trying to find a band good enough to back the notables present. Hill's outfit, from the Little Dixie, definitely fills the bill. Fine rhythm, with excellent brass solos, and a tenor sax man that plays Lester Young (Count Basic) ideas all go to make up a very solid swing style...
...grants from the Fund: Willie Apel, George H. Chase, Henry Chauncey, Henry A. Christian, William Dameshok, Dana B. Durand. Ralph E. Fadum. Know, B. Finley, Alden B. Greuinger, Frederick V. Hunt, Perry G. F. Miller, Samuel E. Morison. Arthur E. Norton, Ralph B. Perry, John Reek Reinheld Rudenberg, Karl Sax, Theodore E. Sterne, Theodore J. B. Stier, Paul A. Vesisl, Robert W. Vose, Ralph H. Wetmore, and George E. Wistocki...
John Bragg '41 almost succeeded in copying Frankie Trambauer's alto sax solo on "singing the Blues" but lost himself half way through. Jack Harlow fared better with Bix's trumpet solo, only to mar an otherwise good performance with a cloudy tone, not at all representative of Beiderbecks...
Last Monday night a tornado from out of Kansas City shuffled into town, settled down at the Southland, and proceeded to agitate all the window shades, rugs, and sundry jitterbugs gathered therein. Agitation was headed by Lester Young, tenor sax for the tornado, commonly known as Count Basie's band...