Word: trombonist
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...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...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...
...young, and it likes to fiddle around with tunes. A fine rhythm section-Baby Dodds, drums; Pops Foster, bass; Ralph Sutton, piano; and Danny Parker, guitar-make the base for all of these pieces. This segment stands out in "Eccentric" behind Davison's trumpet. Jimmy Archey, the small trombonist who made such a big noise in Boston last winter, handles the leads on "Hotter Than That" and "Big Butter And Egg Man," teaming on the latter with Sutton to manufacture a beautiful duct...