Word: tenore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago jazz style, rough, nervous, backed by a driving pulse, got its start when Austin High boys played in their gym on Friday afternoons in 1923 and 1924. One of them, the late, great Clarinetist Frank Teschmaker, taught Benny Goodman some stuff. Another, Tenor Saxophonist Bud Freeman, was one of many who later played in the Goodman band and now lead their own. Still another was husky, florid Trumpeter Jimmy MacPartland, who assembled the small band at the Brass Rail this week. Three of that group are men who began in the Austin High period: bespectacled Joe Sullivan, who learned...
After painstaking rehearsals, Mr. Bechet went to the Victor studios with his tenor and soprano saxophones, string bass, drums, clarinet. The piano was already there. He recorded each instrument's part separately, listening to and recording the preceding part as he played the next one (see cut, p. 40), The six parts were progressively dubbed together. "Man!" cried Mr. Bechet, when the job was done. "That ends three months of torture...
After a Saturday-night singer decides which part he wants to sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
Divorced. By Morton Downey, high tenor: Barbara Bennett, sister of Actresses Constance and Joan Bennett; in Bridgeport, Conn. He got custody of their four boys, one girl...
Spartanburg's festival has no rich backers, no imported stars. In last week's Requiem the tenor soloist was an insurance agent, the baritone a city councilman who is in the sand business. A music-store clerk was the rollicking gangster hero of the 18th-Century low-lives in the Beggar's Opera; his moll was Ruth Ives, Converse voice teacher and operatic production manager...