Word: saxophonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
Doubt about the workability of consigning the saxophonist, clarinetist, spinet piano thumper, and the "just learning" violinist who inhabit his entry to Holden solitude was expressed by Proctor Jerrold Scoutt 3L last night. He had no doubts about the desirability...
This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Hot Pianist James P. Johnson and Hot Saxophonist Sidney Bechet, in a tribute to the late Fats Waller...
...sought after by bandleaders, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater. For some of the boys in his band, Drummer Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, baritone sax, and Guitarist Freddy Guy, it was also an anniversary. They had gone into the Cotton Club with the Duke 20 years ago. Tough little Saxophonist Johnny Hodges joined them there...
Jimmy MacPartland was back home last week. He was the only survivor in those parts" of the "Austin High gang," some of whom had gone to school together on Chicago's West Side. Saxophonist Bud Freeman, Drummer Dave Tough and Guitarist Eddie Condon were playing in Manhattan...