Word: trombonist
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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...
Creating Characters. Both painters arrived at film-fashioned realism by the circuitous route of abstract expressionism. A gregarious jazz trombonist who played with Gene Krupa's band, Kanovitz, 39, was first attracted to art by a fellow musician who was studying painting. The more his sideman talked, the more Kanovitz liked what he heard. He enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, soon moved on to New York, where he got wrapped up in the Greenwich Village group that revolved around Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and Robert Motherwell. He continued to paint abstract expressionist canvases up until...
...even the sustained fortissimi or the close quarters. The blame goes to the electronic amplifiers. An old-fashioned oompah military band, playing a Sousa march in Central or Golden Gate Park, generated as much sound. But the sound was not amplified, and was dissipated in the open air. A trombonist sitting in front of a tuba player might be a bit deaf for an hour or so after a concert; then his hearing returned to normal. A microphone hooked up to a public-address system did not appreciably increase the hearing hazard. What did was multiple mikes and speakers...
...night that Benny Goodman's big band first brought jazz to the concert hall, and in memory of the occasion Benny got the old group together last week for an evening of dinner-and-jam at his Manhattan apartment. Some of the boys -James, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Trombonist Red Ballard-were tied up elsewhere, but 14 of the original 26 made it, including Drummer Gene Krupa, Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, Pianist Jess Stacy and Singer Martha Tilton. Goodman, now 58, fed them all a buffet supper, and then they sat down to blow Avalon, Sweet Lorraine, Stompin...
Defining Limits. The evening contained only two recognizable musical moments. At one point, the hornist inexplicably quoted a swatch of Tchaikov sky's Symphony No. 5, and the possibly unhinged trombonist retired to an adjoining terrace to toot 76 Trombones...