Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come" signal fly to me. When she was still 50 feet away I'd signal "down," and she'd drop flat, skidding on her little stomach, and really it made your heart swell to see her. The Colonel reviewed us and I worked Delia as a solo demonstration and she won top honors. . . . She knew it too, and was so proud heeling at my side and prancing like a high-spirited horse. Yesterday was her final test in defense and attack. She thought the "agitator" wanted to play and failed miserably-breaking my heart. She was rejected...
Captain Rondeau opened the scoring with a solo at 1:53 of the first period, and two minutes later put in a pass from Billy Riley. Earle Acker roared back less than a minute later to score for Harvard as the play zoomed from one end of to the other of the rink on the jumps of the fast-skating lines...
Fessenden made it 3 to 1 for the Green, but Marc Beebe's solo brought the Crimson to within one goal of the Indians, and Captain Johnny Paine, playing his last game for Harvard, put in the equalizer at 1:01 of the second period, with Rondeau in the penalty box. Goals by Rondeau and Bill Harrison late in the period moved Dartmouth out into the lead again--and Riley jumped the opening faceoff of the final period to score, making an overwhelming margin...
...Duke was so careful to avoid having two people playing the same style on the same instrument, there was no real opportunity to appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close to persuading me that a violin can play jazz. With Nance and Juan Tizol's trombone, "Bakiff" was infinitely more...
...seemed self-conscious in most of the numbers. "Black, Brown, and Beige" although disorganized, had some very lovely parts. He thinks it is a proof of the fact that Ellington is eventually going to do something incredibly exciting. Ben Webster played beautifully, as did all others, but Johnny Hodges' solo on "Day Dreams" got the most applause. Duke played "Blue Belles of Harlem" almost as a piano solo and he played better than ever before. A girl named Roche now sings with the band, very much like Billic Holiday, but clearer and more in tune...