Word: trombonist
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...Archey is still the best in town, and he is still at Jimmy Ryans, the last of the 52nd Street dives. Pops Foster, who was the first bass-player to go all-pizzicato, and drummer Tommy Benford, who hit the main circuit with Jelly Roll Morton, assist the star trombonist. Sunday...
Dickenson and Bailey have been around for a long time. Trombonist Vic has developed his taste and feeling over more than a quarter-century of playing with the best in the field, and Buster has been a clarinet wizard to generations of greats and near-greats. Bailey is a grandfather now, but he can still blow a chorus that sounds as if it were some- where between Goodman and Ed Hall--with the smoothness of neither, but the imagination of both...
During the summer of 1948, Gifford went to a musicians' hangout in his home town of Washington, D. C., and met a heavy dark-haired young trombonist-pianist named Laurence J. Eanet '52. It didn't take long for them to discover two important facts about each other--that they were both starting at Harvard as freshmen that fall, and that they both loved Dixieland jazz...
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...