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...evening of pure, concentrated hellraising, we suggest Fats Waller at the Southland. I heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
...Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
...Nichols is there now...The Roseland State right around the corner, will continue to bring in big names. But their poster advertising is so poor that one finds out about Glenn Miller's orchestra not earlier than two days after it is gone . . . No word ensues from the Southland, traditional hangout for Harvard men. It is to be hoped, however, that they do as well as last year in giving Boston a chance to hear music rather than Ruby Newman . . . At this writing, the Little Harlem, colored dine and dance spot right near the Raymor-Roseland corner, plans to have...
Boston gets an unusual band this week with Fletcher Henderson pulling into the Southland. Fletcher,--Benny Goodman claims and just about everybody else in the business admits--is the best arranger in the jazz field. His "Sometimes I'm Happy," done for Benny Goodman, is considered to be one of the five greatest arrangements ever written and Henderson himself says that he never expects to write another sax chorus such as is contained in this record. He claims that he wrote the equally famous "Stardust" arrangement for Goodman while lying flat on his back from an automobile accident and that...
Soon after, the song reached its stride, and with it came complaints from Si Oliver, arranger for Jimmy Lunceford, who claimed it came from his arrangement of Dear Old Southland, from Gene Krupa who said he made it up in one of his earlier Brunswick records, from Count Basic who has used the lick in numerous of his arrangements. Jerry Kreuger, a 52nd Street singer, said she has used the line "Don't get icky with the 1-2-3" in New York since last summer after hearing it in the Catskills...