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...four of the eight sides he is joined by alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges and the combination of these two is a happy one. Hodges' playing also effectively balances melody and technique. The tunes they play, "On The Sunny Side Of The Street," "Flamingo," "Night And Day," and "Time On My Hands," are melodic, medium-paced, and moody, just right for their combined talents...
Front Man. Louis' current band of unknowns is led by Saxophonist Joe Garland, composer of Leap Frog and In the Mood. They alternate with a white band from 6:30 p.m. to 4 a.m. Between shows, Louis bounces through the restaurant kitchens to a crowded basement dressing room to shed his sweat-drenched shirt and gnaw barbecued ribs served on paper plates. On hand are a trunk of linen handkerchiefs, a dozen pairs of shoes ("They got to cool off"), and a typewriter. He says his hobby is "jus' typin'"-a typewriter has so many more keys...
Next came folk singers Josh (One Meat Ball) White, Burl (Blue Tail Fly) Ives and Woody (Ballads from the Dust Bowl) Guthrie, and jazz purists like Pianist Mary Lou Williams and Saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, and guitar-strumming Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet, singing Elizabethan love lyrics. His best sellers: Burl Ives, and an album of American country dances...
Sweet & Lowdown. In Manhattan, Saxophonist Ernest Andreano was arrested for stealing a shaker full of sugar from a Horn & Hardart Automat...
...trombone player in Earl Hines's band uses butter as a slide lubricant. 2) Saxophonist Dick Stabile dislikes a buzzy tone effect on the saxophone. 3)Give me a drink and I'll tell you everything...