Word: trombonist
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...heroine (Bea Richards) is a Harlem storefront preacher, and she preaches and preaches and worries and cries. The husband she left years ago, an alcoholic trombonist, has come home to die, and that turns out to be a play-length process. The son she has cowed into seemingly submissive piety sneaks out to bars, and surreptitiously plays his father's jazz recordings. A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus...
...Trombonist Robert ("Cutty") Cutshall; Trumpeters John ("Yank") Lawson, Henry ("Red") Allen, Joseph ("Wingy") Manone; Drummer Arthur ("Zutty") Singleton; Clarinetists Charles ("Pee Wee") Russell, Michael ("Peanuts") Hucko; Bandleader Wood-row ("Woody") Herman; Pianist Willie ("The Lion") Smith...
Died. Wilder Hobson, 59, onetime staff member at TIME, FORTUNE, Harper's Bazaar and, for the last ten years, at Newsweek, author of a history of American jazz and an amateur trombonist; of gastrointestinal hemorrhage; in Princeton...
...STEP BEYOND: JACKIE McLEAN (Blue Note). Alto Saxophonist McLean is several steps beyond most listeners' taste, but his musicianship is faultless, and his stratospheric imagination takes him into what may well become the future sound of jazz. Trombonist Grachan Moncur and Drummer Anthony Williams are superb sidemen...
...Houk, the trumpet player, even looks a little like his unmistakable musical hero, Miles Davis. Houk's head is full of ideas, and although he sometimes appears to be thinking faster than he can blow, the emotional intensity of his playing is consistently high. The Blue Notes' trombonist, Sam Saltonstall, plays slowly and thoughtfully; there seem to be years of quiet cogitation behind each note. Rounded off by a hard-driving rhythm section (A1 Feeny, John Voigt and Billy Elgart), the Blue Notes are a swinging crew...