Word: spanier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...
YOUNG Benny's inspiration was the true blues that Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith and dozens of other greats brought up from the South. His companions were jazz-crazy youths named Davey Tough, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Eddie Condon, Muggsy Spanier, Bix Beiderbecke. Fame came to all of them; Benny copped the crown...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...
...evening wear, there are dozens of bars with entertainment and thousands without. In the former category, Ryan's, Condon's, and Birdland, all discussed elsewhere on these pages, stick to instrumental jazz. So does Nick's, Seventh Ave, and 10th, where Muggsy Spanier is the feature, and The Embers, 54th near Third, with Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo. Irving Fields, and on Sundays Bobby Hackett...
...that Kaminsky's group suffers by comparison. Muggsy Spanier's fine ensemble ended a long stay at the Savoy last weekend, and Spanier's is a difficult act to follow. But the Spanier band was good because its members play well together, with well-integrated styles. Kaminsky seems to be a victim of the New York Condon's-Nick's melting pot of cacophony--where musicians of totally different schools of dixieland drift together for too brief a time to achieve the cohesiveness of harmony that makes for a great combination...