Word: soloings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next delighted listeners heard wavy-haired Marine Sergeant Leonard Wheeler try to telephone his boyhood hero, ex-Sergeant Alvin C. York, in Jamestown, Tenn. (It had to be solo because Major York was chinning with the boys in a local barbershop and forgot to be at home for the call...
Arrangements are only half of the situation; you have to have good soloists in your band, even if they don't take solos. This is amply illustrated by Goodman's band at its peak. At this time he had just about the finest white soloists in the country, but his records concentrate on the arrangements and feature only scattered solos. Yet these records contain the most spirited playing any big white band has put on wax. Miller can only lay claim to Bobby Hackett and possibly Billy May as definitely first rate improvisers, although little of their work with...
...Willie Calhoun soon amounted to a midshipman at Annapolis. In World War I, he amounted to sub base commander at Coco Solo, Canal Zone. Despite the fact that the destroyer Young under his command followed six others on to the rocks of Point Honda in 1923, a court-martial commended Calhoun for his "coolness, intelligence and seamanlike ability after the vessel stranded, which . . . was responsible for the greatly reduced loss of life." Calhoun's career moved upward through battleship and base force cofnmands...
...three on Bluebird under his name. "Minor Jive" is momentarily unavailable, but the other two may still be found in the record shops. "The World Is Waiting" is a marvelous example of Newton's modesty and simplicity, and "Blues My Baby Gave To Me" is among the finest blues solos ever recorded. Frank's solo on the remaining record, Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," on UHCA, is already legendary...
...crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...