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Things are certainly swingteresting this month in old Beantown. Bunny Berigan opens Monday at the Marionette Room of the Hotel Brunswick with his full band and Kay Doyle as vocalist, and Duke Ellington is at the Southland. Berigan's trumpet playing is always worth hearing, and this band is supposed to be pretty good...
Notice that Jimmy says that arrangements and showmanship plus musicianship are necessary if a band is to have real popular appeal. From hearing the band three different times this week at the Southland. I think that it ranks with Jimmy Dorsey as being the best all around band in the country. And at a great many things, it shades Dorsey. I can remember very few times when I got as big a kick from just the way a band played its music as I did from such things as Lunceford's rendition of the Beethovan Sonata Pathetique. The band puts...
...blue blazes we are going to be three places at once tonight; but somehow it's going to have to be done. Van Alexander is at the Adams House dance, Bob Crosby at the Harvard-Dartmouth Ballroom at the Somerset, and Bunny Berigan is at the Southland--each one worth hearing...
...being considered for the Fitch Band Wagon . . . Victor records announce that the following Goodman records are being dropped from the Victor label to the Bluebird listings. And don't miss them, because they're all old ones that are good: "If I Could Be With You"--"Dear Old Southland"; "Japanese Sandman".--"I Know That You Know"; "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"--"Christopher Columbus"; "Madhouse"--"Get Happy"; "Can't We Be Friends"--"Swing Me A Swing Song"; "Someday Sweetheart...
...future of swing in Boston looks very bright these days with Bob Crosby coming in for the Harvard-Dartmouth Ball at the Somerset on October 27 and Bunny Berigan camping down at the Southland starting next Monday...