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Word: sextet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet of Guy Kelly, as well as Albert's own rolling bass... Benny Goodman of 1940, heard at his Totem-Pole one nighter, is one of the biggest things in jazz since the Goodman of 1936... Highlights: Cootie Williams with the Sextet, playing half an hour straight, including Honeysuckle Rose and a lot of fast blues... Benny will go to Rochester Sunday, where he and the Sextet will be featured with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra... More next Saturday...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...Rigamaroie" by Duke Daly is just okeh--band in very heavy and never really gets swinging . . . Tommy Dorsey's "April Plays The Fiddle" gets our vote as the most likely new tune most competently played . . . Benny Goodman's "The Sheik" keeps up the good standard the sextet has set--and shows for the first time what excellent drumming Nick Fatool is capable of . . . "Bluin' the Blues" is another disc by the amazingly little Dixleland gruop Muggay Spanier gathered around him. Besides good solos and the drive that all the records of this series have, the reverse face. "At Sundown...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

Clark Hodder's hulking Harvard golf team will trek to Wellesley tomorrow (over the Flotilla route) and engage the girls in Blue in the climactic match of the year. The strong Crimson sextet, winner of the New England team crown and defeated only once in league play, rules the favorite over the Wellesley divot dolls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoddyman Face Wellesley Golf Match Tomorrow | 5/29/1940 | See Source »

...Crimson Freshmen were swamped by a strong Exeter sextet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Lose Match, Title to Yale | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...team is Junior Watty Dickerman, teaming with Don Elbel as the number five man last year. Dickerman has had his ups and downs this spring but is tried and true in match play. Cordingley, Graves and Dickerman have been playing the lead positions on this year's golf sextet. The last letterman, Don Elbel, has been in a continual dog-fight with newcomers for one of the remaining three jobs and has just missed out on every occasion. He may break into the lineup this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

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