Word: trombonist
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...Cocksure little Al Trace was packing a spot where anyone had to be both good and loud to blow away the memories of more memorable bands-the famed Coon-Sanders orchestra; or Ben Pollack's band, which featured a young trombonist named Glenn Miller and a clarinetist named Benny Goodman. Kay Kyser had started his College of Musical Knowledge there...
...beer-and-sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young...
Leverett House plays host to the first University-wide jazz concert since before the war tomorrow, when a group of jazzmen topped by trombonist J. C. Higgen-botham breaks loose in the Dining Hall at 3 o'clock. The concert is sponsored by the House Committee in an effort to stimulate College interest in jazz and to round out Leverett's weekend entertainment program, which includes a formal dinner and dance Saturday evening. Some of the East's better known jazz artists will be featured...
Married. Thomas Francis ("Tommy") Dorsey, 42, balding trombonist and bandleader; and Jane New, 23, curvy chorine; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Pianist Earl Hines, Drummer Sid Catlett, Bull Fiddler Arvell Shaw...