Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turmpeter Davison, clarinetist Buster Bailey, and trombonist Vic Dickenson are all fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...
...nightclub. He gave her the job at $65 a week, and she celebrated by eating steak for the first time-at breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper. But she soon began to worry tearfully that she was not getting over. Then, at dinner one night in Philadelphia, a trombonist in the band confided that she was going to be fired. Betty gulped three brandy-and-benedictines and went to the theater in the reckless conviction that she had nothing to lose...
...Huggajeedy Eight. The Firehouse Five was started as a hobby and it was not the first one that Ward Kimball ever lit a match under. A onetime symphony trombonist who now makes his living putting out cartoons for Walt Disney, Kimball has a full-scale railroad in the yard of his San Gabriel home. After he restored a 1914 Ford to shining grandeur, he became an earnest member of the local Horseless Carriage Club. The band got started when he found some other jazz-record fans around the Disney lot; before long they had dusted off their long-neglected instruments...
...tears ("Their harmony is like a symphony or a sunset"). The Mariners, another quartet, is made up of ex-Coast Guardsmen. Godfrey calls them "the only male quartet in the U.S. that's working regularly." Other valuable stooges and straight men: Announcer Tony Marvin, Orchestra Leader Archie Bleyer, Trombonist Sy Shaffer...
...Paulo, his Cadillac pulls up outside a plush nightclub known as the Oasis. The Oasis' bartender keeps a special highball glass ready with "Baby" etched on the side. There, not long ago, Baby used a whisky bottle to etch some less formal inscriptions on an uncooperative trombonist's brow...