Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...
Five years ago Philadelphia's Grand Opera Company was only a notion entertained by three people: Mrs. Joseph Leidy, socialite wife of a Philadelphia doctor, William Carl Hammer, an importer, and his wife, Kathryn O'Gorman Hammer, daughter of a bandmaster and herself an able slide-trombonist. The Hammers interested Mrs. Leidy in a local opera venture; Mrs. Leidy interested her friends who bought boxes. The Hammers became managers, announced six performances for the first season. Mr. Hammer attended to the box-office while Mrs. Hammer persuaded artists to sing on a co-operative basis, borrowed sets...
Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...