Word: tenoritis
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...band was that as soon as Cab stepped off the stage, there was nothing there but a rather noisy brass section and an exceedingly wobbly hunk of rhythm. Now, however His Highness has stepped into the market and returned with several juicy chunks of swing--namely Chu Berry on tenor sax, Cozy Cole on drums, Milton Hinton on bass, Hilton Jefferson on alto, Kay Johnson on trombone, Jerry Blake on clarinet and a kid trumpet player named Danny Barker...
...always been my favorite tenor sax man. Some time ago he made a record of "Limehouse Blues" with some of the boys from the band for Variety Records. There was one lick in the record that I like especially, and when I next heard the band, I asked him to play me some "Limehouse" and especially that one phrase. So sitting in his dressing room, with one of the trombone men playing guitar, Mr. Berry played me twenty minutes of "Limehouse Blues" at a murderous tempo--all of it built around this one idea I had mentioned...
Behind the patched and faded fed velvet curtain of Philadelphia's elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...
...best fun. Its singers, chosen from 450 Philadelphians who showed up for auditions, averaged 27 years in age, were well above average in looks. Retranslated, by Chorus Master Vernon Hammond, was the gay, sometimes bawdy Viennese libretto (1874), which details the ballroom deceptions practiced upon a banker (Tenor Edward Nyborg, tailor's son) by his wife (Selma Amansky, wife of the Philadelphia Orchestra's trumpeter and associate conductor, Saul Caston) and his maidservant (Frances Greer, church singer). Typical couplet, sung by the banker...
...good jazz--and Donahue has it. Junie Mays (piano--also some excellent arrangements), Bill Hoffman (bass) and Charlie Carroll on drums do a sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue, as are Sal Pace (alto), Johhny Martel (former Goodman trumpet man), and Miff Sims (trombone), all of whom are good. Paula Kelly and Phil Brito do the vocals, both being personable and good; the former has always been...