Word: saxman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best jazz of all was to be heard in a basement club on the Near North Side called Jazz Ltd. There the big name was grizzled old Soprano Saxman Sidney Bechet (TIME, March 31), whose last club engagement in Chicago was at the Deluxe Cafe in 1918, when he came out of New Orleans' Storyville after the whorehouses were shut down during World War I. Old Sidney, who had recently been favoring one side of his mouth because of an infected tooth, sounded all the better for a new store tooth. Playing alongside him was a trombonist named Munn...
Mother Hen to Jazz. There were good men on the bandstand: Saxman Bud Freeman; cocky, stocky Trumpeter Wild Bill Davison, who blows the horn out of the side of his mouth; zoot-suitish Clarinetist Joe (Little Sir Echo) Marsala, Drummers Dave Tough and George Wettling-all members of ragtime's Valhalla (Chicago branch) who have kept on playing jazz the old way, even after their pal Benny Goodman called it swing and made it a million dollar baby. There were no music stands or orchestrations to be seen at Eddie Condon's. "That's for organized slop...
...colored sock style that sounds a great deal like Andy Kirk only much more cleanly performed and with better phrasing. Best example of this style (which he is using on most of his pop tunes) is the theme song with which he opens his broadcasts. Listen especially to tenor saxman Sam Donahue, who is one of the best white men playing. Gene's playing has quieted down into good solid drumming for the band instead of for himself, so that things really swing most of the time...