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...trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers, but is otherwise miscast. Satchmo and Trombonist Jack Teagarden contribute a few hot jazz licks, but most of the picture...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...
...Brandied as a Criminal." The son of a lower East Side barber who liked to pass out money in the streets, Jimmy began his career by punching a honky-tonk piano for 75? a night. After working in a score of saloons before he was 22, he graduated to a Harlem cabaret, where he played the piano for $45 a week "from eight o'clock at night till I was subconscious." The boss stifled Jimmy's attempts to be a comedian; he didn't like piano players who tried to be funny. But the comedian could...
Died. Egbert A. Van Alstyne, 73, old-time songwriter (In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, Pretty Baby, Memories); of a heart attack; in Chicago. After several years as a honky-tonk piano player and song plugger, Van Alstyne, with Lyricist Harry Williams, won Tin Pan Alley fame in 1903 with Navaho, then went on to turn out more than 500 tunes until radio came along to rout the family piano. When sheet-music sales began to drop, Van Alstyne decided it was time to retire...
...story, the directness of the dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...