Word: tenore
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Coleman Hawkins and Big Sidney Catlett will be featured at the Crown Hotel jam session in Providence on Sunday. The Hawk is playing a lot of tenor these days any you don't want to miss him ... Record of the week: Jelly Jelly, a slow blues by Earl Hines. Soloists include the Father opening up with some elaborate piano, one of his best recent recorded solos; and a vocal backed by guitar fillins which give the chorus a pleasantly simple contrapuntal quality. Everybody comes in for the finish, and it's stuff like this which makes...
Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...
...numbers--which incidentally have been featured with Harry James and Duke Ellington--have that element of spontaneity and life which you'll only find in colored entertainment, and which is sadly lacking in the run-of-the-mill Boston floor show. Last week I went overboard for Roscoe's tenor work. I've heard him several times since then and still haven't eaten my words. If you do go down to the Savoy, ask the band to play Liebestraum, and listen to the way Roscoe builds up chorus after chorus until you say to yourself, it's just...
...first consists of four twelve-inch sides issued by the Hot Record Society, and which I was unable to review when they were released six weeks ago. The band playing is called Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, and includes Teagarden, Rex Stewart (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), and Dave Tough (drums). The tunes are: St. James' Infirmary, Shine, The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise, and Big Eight Blues...
Superlative number two is Roscoe McRae, who plays tenor sax with the Jones Brothers' band at the Savoy on Columbus Avenue in Boston. Now the Savoy is only twenty minutes or so from Harvard Square, and you really should get down there if you want to hear the closest thing to Coleman Hawkins outside of the Hawk himself. As a matter of fact, I was down there the other night with a tenorman whose opinion I respect tremendously, and after hearing McRae on Body and Soul, he remarked that even Hawkins would have to dig hard to keep up with...