Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hall has just made four twelve-inch sides for Blue Note Records, playing in a quartet which includes Meade Lux Lewis on celeste, Charlie Christians on electric guitar, and Israel Crosby on string bass. The combination, as you can see, is quite exceptional, and the music is awfully interesting. The four tunes, "Profoundly Blue," "Celestial Express," "Jamming in Four," and "Edmond Hall Blues" are all blues, two slew and two fast, and Hall is the star on everyone, although Lux Lewis' delicate celeste work is an unusual departure from the heavy beat of ordinary boogie-woogie Collectively, the boys weave...
...Yardling's second line comes through as it has in the past, and if Captain Reeves is well enough to swing a stick, the 1944 pucksters can look foreward to adding Yale to their string of victims. But if they are without Reeves, and have to count on a less reliable defense, it will be anyone's game...
...been the dress industry's long suit. For years it flourished in a seller's market; it still inhabits an economic Bohemia where success often depends 50% on talent in designing, 49% on luck and 1% on managerial skill. A shop can be started on a corset string; given a loft and a few cheap machines, anybody can try it. Although dressmaking is Manhattan's biggest manufacturing industry ($349,482,204 in 1939), its units are pygmies: only 60 firms gross as much as $1,000,000 annually. Some 22% of the companies fail and are replaced...
...heard the harp in recital can imagine the amazing volume of tone it produces. To look at it, with its aesthetically-shaped frame, and its rows of fragile strings, one would think the best it could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles, whereas in reality, when skillfully played, it can compete with the organ in fullness and richness of tone. The combination of the harp and organ, which I have never heard, should certainly be an unusual one, if not downright peculiar. It is hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with...
...extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel...