Word: shouters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paris opened with a ballyhooed two-hour revue featuring Stripper Britton and starring Shouter Betty Hutton. Boniface Walters (who ran Manhattan's Latin Quarter for years) paid $22,500 a week just for Singer Hutton. For such a blue chip outlay, he needed two full houses every week night and three on weekends, with every one of the 1,000 seats returning as much as $30. The first week he grossed $70,000 and lost $10,000. Says he: "If I'd paid Hutton a normal salary, I could have made $10,000 instead...
Jimmy Rushing Sings the Blues (Vanguard). Blues shouter for Count Basic's great band at the turn of the '40s. Rushing has a couple of men from the Basic gang in the band that backs him. He may not have the sweetest voice in the land, but his cries are uttered with a mastery of inflection that causes lumpy throats...
...Douglas (Cook LP). A latter-day blues shouter and guitar man combines a primitive manner with sophisticated trimmings, yesterday's feeling with today's subjects. Sample blues lyric...
Lizzy Miles (Cook LP). Billed as "Queen Mother of the Rue Royale," Blues Shouter Miles sounds much like her sisters, Bessie Smith. Chippie Hill et al., with the difference that, pushing 60 she is very much alive. Taped in New Orleans last spring this beautifully recorded album also contains a chorus (All of Me) in French and. of all things, a hot bugle, played by Buglin' Sam DeKemel...
...ferocity is also part of Mathieu's obvious desire to overpower the viewer and compel his attention. Two smaller pictures-a snarl of black on a red canvas and a few black splashes on a white canvas-show that when the shouter lowers his voice, he also lowers his standards; they are simply chic. But as a whole the exhibition proves that Mathieu is as powerful an abstract expressionist as Manhattan's own Willem de Kooning...