Word: trombonist
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...piano), Johnny Fields (bass), Inky Ingersoll (banjo), and Jack Hart (drums). Johnny Windhurst, it will be recalled, came up from New York with Jim Moynahan '23, for a session last month. Since, then, he's moved to South Weymouth (living with Charlie Vinal). George Lugg is the veteran tailgate trombonist of Chicago jazz fame who appeared twice last summer at the Harvard Jazz Club's sessions with Art Hodes' band. He's making the trip up from New York. The others are Boston musicians who have frequently appeared at previous sessions...
...first jobs the boys had on a professional basis was accompanying silent films at a local movie palace. One afternoon they went into "Bugle Call Rag" as Tom Mix ran down the rustlers, and Dave North was sailing into his fourteenth piano chorus when trombonist Floyd O'Brien glanced up at the screen. The newsreel had come on and Marshal Foch was laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier...
...Orleans bandwagons, the trombonist usually sat by the tailgate, where he had room to extend his slide...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
Most radical change in the Philharmonic's ranks, the engagement of a new first trombonist named William Jack Satterfield, caused heated comment not only among Carnegie Hall's long hairs but throughout the music marts of Broadway's dance-band industry. No highbrow, Trombonist Satterfield, son of a West-Virginia farmer, is famed, not for symphonic and operatic tromboning, but for his hot riffs as a member of Raymond Paige's "Young Americans" and several well-known U.S. dance bands. Never before (except in the case of one obscure drum & cymbal player) had the august Philharmonic...