Word: trios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well represented in the show were early U. S. portraitists, 19th-Century genre painters, the top-notch trio of Homer, Ryder and Eakins. There were plenty of surprising items: a huge, romantic, melodramatic scene by Copley, Watson and the Shark; a nude, Ariadne Asleep in the Island of Naxos, painted in a day when nudes were taboo, by Gilbert Stuart's pupil Vanderlyn; a pioneer surrealist work, Deluge, by Washington Allston, with limp white corpses, fantastic serpents, a four-fanged she-wolf; Raphael Peale's After the Bath, in which the ultra-realistic painting of pins...
...Rockies and I've Found a New Baby; Down South Camp Meeting; Sometimes I'm Happy and King Porter (Bunny Berigan featured on both sides); Bugle Call Rag (with some terrific Goodman clarinet); Roll 'Em (arranged by Mary Lou Williams, one of the first boogie-woogie orchestrations). By the trio: Body and Soul (with one of Teddy Wilson's best choruses); China Boy. By the Quartet: Sweet Georgia Brown...
Chief looseners are a trio of sailors impersonated by Rags Ragland, Pat Harrington & Frankie Hyers-the last two on leave from Manhattan's locally famed "18 Club," where for some years they have assisted Comedian Jack White in making that institution a sort of petit palais of honky-tonk humor and personal insult. Mr. Porter has worked with funny men before (Victor Moore, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr). But never with any so fundamentally low-down funny as these. In Panama Hattie one of them observes to his pal Ragland: "You make more cheap dolls than they do in Japan...
...Bois, who has also clothed a luscious chorus line in just the right places, gives Cole Porter a chance to indulge his talent for Latin-American rhythms (previous examples: Begin the Beguine, I Get A Kick Out of You}. The Porterian lyric wit is displayed in a trio and quintet titled, respectively, God Bless the Women and You Said It. The tune that seems likely to prove most durable is Panama Hattie's response, in rumba rhythm, to temporary disappointment in love: "Make it another oldfashioned, please . . . leave out the cherry, leave out the orange, leave...
...music at uptown Café Society was nothing new to its downtown habitues. Two of the boogie-woogie players, Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, pounded two pianos. Teddy Wilson, rippling, inventive jazz pianist, played in his own orchestra and in a trio with Clarinetist Jimmy Hamilton and Drummer Yank Porter, who moons, mugs, smiles ecstatically while he beats it out. The Golden Gate Quartet swung spirituals. Sultry, curvesome, Trinidad-born Hazel Scott, who was trained by a teacher from Manhattan's crack Juilliard School, played Bach and Liszt on the piano, first straight, then hot. The authentic afflatus...