Word: saxophonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sponsors of these jazz concerts are a group of Lowell House undergraduates headed by Charles Kallman '47. The next session is planned for September 11 and will feature Wild Bill Davison, Chicago cornetist, and Georgie Auld, well known tenor saxophonist...
...Harvard men are stuffed shirts, from what I've seen of them," Jimmy Dorsey said in the recent interview. The saxophonist orchestra leader got this warped picture of Cambridge manhood when he played at a House dance several years...
...expression (surprised) but by the sounds (symphonic) he emitted from his instrument, his listeners in Washington, D.C. this week could tell that Sigurd Rascher was no saxophonist of the baser sort. With the National Symphony and Conductor Rudolph Ganz behind him, Saxophonist Rascher's proops and pralalas were strictly serious. And so was Sigurd Rascher, for he is the man who rescued the saxophone from the barrelhouse...
Rascher played with European dance bands, gave up the lukewarm licks after his first date, nine years ago, with a concert orchestra. He perfected a finger and blowing technique of his own, ironed out the wobbles, slithers and wails of the commercial saxophonist. To get something respectable to play, he transcribed from the classics, begged saxophone pieces from contemporaries-well-known ones like Coates, Glazounov, Ibert, and unknowns named Tarp, Jacobi, Bentzon, Borck...
...brooded over the idea of a big band with which he could play concert jazz. The band he led last week represents a compromise. Among its 32 pieces are 15 strings, which play straight for Shaw's featured hot soloists-best-known: Negro Trumpeter "Hot Lips" Paige, Saxophonist Les Robinson, Trumpeter Max Kaminsky, Drummer Dave Tough...