Word: trombonist
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...disappointed when quiet Ray Noble conducted his men. His easy gestures were all from the wrist. Occasionally he tapped his foot, sometimes sat at a piano, pattered a bit. He had gathered first-rate U. S. players and, unlike many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager and drummer, and Crooner Al Bowlly, a swarthy South African who began...
...rest Composer Dawson appeared to have forgotten his primitive background. After his shoe-shining days in Anniston, Ala., he worked ambitiously at Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute. He studied music in Kansas City, later in Chicago where Conductor Frederick Stock chose him for his first trombonist. He returned to Tuskegee in 1930, to head the music department, direct the choir...
...known that her Frederick and his men could clown so. For one act the bassoon choir came out like monks and played an intermezzo; for another, little Carl Rink aped a violin prodigy while the other musicians played cards, rustled through newspapers. Four policemen arrested Manager Henry Voegeli when Trombonist Arthur Gunther (220 lb.) appeared in pink tights, attempted a fan-dance. But the evening's high point was the kitchen symphony (Messrs. Metzenger. Veseley, Sayers and Kopp) for which the four strange shoppers-the orchestra's percussion players-dressed up like chefs, stood between a big stove...
...Hollywood jazzster, last week got into the newspapers by suddenly calling to his valet during a rehearsal: "Teddy, bring me my horse!" Valet Teddy trotted out with a wooden buck draped in a blanket and fitted with a shiny new English saddle. Stokowski's men tittered as Trombonist Charles Gusikoff started to p1ay "Horses, Horses, Horses...
...quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...