Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jordan Hall program included many of her most famous solo dances: "The Cobras," "White Jade," and "The White Madonna." In the last named, she was assisted by a young man named Billy Ross, who also alternated solo dances with Miss St. Denis during the evening. His "numbers," whether entitled "Sailor's Entrance" or "Whither Man?," were not dances at all but rather more party games or charades. Mr. Ross is no dancer, but he is a grimacer par excellence...
Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
...opening side, "Snag It," puts Ory right out in front with a long, gutteral, uncompromising trombone solo. He lacks the force of an artist like George Brunis, but his low-register slides and his beautiful background work for Bud Scott's dry vocal make a neat piece. The other side of this one, "Savoy Blues," takes off on this old standard to display all the talents in the band-trombone, clarinet, guitar, bass, piano, and trumpet solos are packed between opening and closing choruses. Joe Darensbourg's clarinet stands out among the others here...
...terms of a speak easy Memphis or Chicago. But they are both honest, both pretty much unrehearsed, both happy and medolie. These men are playing around with old friends. When Ory breaks in to ask "How you feeling, Mr. Wilson?", the latter replies with a two-chorus solo that is all the answer required. If you're sick of singing saxophones, try these for a chaser. At present, only Briggs and Briggs and the College Music Shop are kind enough to stock them; but even the people that sell television sets instead of music might try them if they heard...
...Odom, 30, globe-girdling veteran flyer; in an airplane crash (his F51 Mustang went out of control at Cleveland's National Air Races); in Berea, Ohio. Odom's round-the-world flight in April 1947 (78 hrs. 55 min.) broke Howard Hughes's record; his solo global trip four months later in a converted A26 bomber (73 hrs. 5 min.) shattered Wiley Post's old solo mark; his 5,000-odd-mi. hop in 36 hours from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J. last March set a new light-plane record...