Word: tone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the episode some thought they could see Congress, the military. But the Blue's President Woods said that he had had no prompting from anyone. His prompter might well have been the thought that if he did not tone down his more obstreperous commentators, someone else would...
...Juilliard School of Music, he had made the term "Russian violinist" as much a commonplace as "Italian tenor." Critics sometimes complained that Auer's Russians sacrificed elegance and emotion for pyrotechnics and schmalz. But it had to be admitted that nobody could touch Auer for teaching luscious tone quality, machinelike fleetness and accuracy of fingerwork...
...Vagabond, you can't," an inward voice answered in a serious tone. "Dean Hanford . . . you remember. Probation, Vagabond. Dean Hanford. Probation. President Conant wouldn't like it, Vag. And then there's probation . . . Dean Hanford. Probation...
Davison, himself, is undeniably one of the greatest living jazz trumpeters. He plays with tremendous drive and a raw, searing tone, yet at the same time he had a bautiful sense of melody, unfortunatly rare in most jazz musicians...
...better knwon men in the band is clarinetist Rod Cless, for his work on the iabulous Muggsy Spanier Ragtimers' records. Perhaps his cool, limpid tone is not as immediately satisfying as PeeWee Russell's hoarser clarinet, but after repeated hearings, Rod is just as exciting. He plays a fine, clear melodic line that is remmiscent of Johnny Dodds...