Word: trombonist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only two bands made up of New Qrleans old-timers still remain. They're both based at Preservation Hall, on St. Peter Street just off Bourbon, and so many of their members have died in recent years that the two bands have to share their trombonist, clarinetist, and drummer. These ancient jazzmen play with the vigor they must have had in the barrelhouse saloons and honky-tonks where they played in the twenties. But nowadays they go on tour and play at Lincoln Center and at Symphony Hall, where they were March...
Died. Wilbur De Paris, 72, Dixie land trombonist who played with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton during the '20s, '30s and '40s, and then with his own band be came a durable jazz figure on New York City's 52nd Street during the '50s; in Manhattan...
...wood slats fastened like steps up and down vertical tubes that rim the rear of the stage. Some seats are as high as six feet; no two are in the same sight line. It pleases the players that each of them is entirely visible to the audience, although a trombonist who gets up carelessly to take a bow can easily topple to the floor...
Monster Chickens. Karl was a trombonist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra when he bought his 200 acres in 1952. At first he wintered in Dallas, spent summers building the ranch. But as he built, he found he could not keep from inventing things: an underwater device that guides his boat safely to shore, or a collapsible bow, for hunting on horseback...