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...Freeman (Capitol LP). Tenor Saxman Freeman was a 1936-38 feature of the great Tommy Dorsey band. His way with such tunes as Three Little Words, I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan, etc. is fresh, insolent, rugged, mellow-depending on the subtle humors of music and musician...
...Catholic High School band. What she thought she wanted then was to become a psychiatrist-largely because she had seen the movie Spellbound (in which Ingrid Bergman played psychiatrist to Gregory Peck's paranoid guilt complex). But then Lillian began to listen to such jazz artists as Baritone Saxman Gerry Mulligan and Trumpeter Chet Baker, and she became enthusiastic about her trombone...
musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...
...idea of giving a swing concert in Carnegie Hall. He bought his first set of tails. To be on the safe side, he buttressed his band with some special soloists: Negro Pianist-Composer William ("Count") Basie, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett; and from Duke Ellington's band, Soprano and Alto Saxman Johnny Hodges, Baritone Saxer Harry Carney, Trumpeter Cootie Williams...
...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...