Word: teagarden
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...express: that the true heroes of jazz are not the well-advertised Whitemans, Lombardos and Vallees, but an inner circle of such amazing virtuosi as Saxophonists Jimmy Dorsey, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Trum-bauer, Adrian Rollini; Trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Red Nichols, the late Bix Beiderbecke; Trombonists Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey. M. Coffin distinguishes between le jazz straight et hot, denotes les classiques du hot, discusses their sources and development, arrives at a conclusion which has long seemed obvious to devotees: that the best jazz, which enjoys little public 'recognition, is an intricately exciting music, with the true "blues...
Vigorously the Government in the person of Harold Benson Teagarden, special assistant to the Attorney General, opposed the packers' plea. Mr. Teagarden who has worked for five years on the case argued that the consent decree was in the public interest, that the Government could not be swayed by the ill effects of the Anti-Trust Law on individual businesses. The National and the American Wholesale Grocers Associations have joined the Government in trying to keep Armour and Swift from becoming retailers...