Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star of the band is the Ella, or "Tisket A Tasket" Fitzgerald. Ella, besides being a nice kid personally, is a real showman and a marvelous singer. Heard her do an item, "Chew, Chew-something or other, which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about...
...Star number one is Hildegarde, who has been on the cover of Life and in the columns of Time magazine of late, besides finding time to do a radio program known as "Ninety-Nine Men and a Girl." In addition to her singing, which Time aptly termed "singing like Garbo looks," she is an excellent pianist and plans to do some double piano work while up here...
...trumpet riffs around star number two betray a guy with a perpetual grin, Roy Eldridge. Roy, besides being one of the top swing men in the country, manages to play more fast trumpet than anybody around. To get an idea of why he got the nickname, "Wild Man," listen to "After You've Gone" (Vocalion...
...Star three is Albert Ammons, a former Chicago lad whose boogiewoogie playing with Meade Lux Lewis at the Cafe Society in New York has had every piano man in the country practising up on his left hand. For some of the finest piano jazz ever recorded, get the two Blue Note records, a private release, which has piano by Albert...
...With star hurler and captain Bob Leahy sidelined by a chipped elbow, MelCollard's mediocre Boston University nine are due for their third defeat of the season at the hands of Harvard's smooth-playing, slugging 1939 varsity batsmen on Soldiers Field today...