Word: trombonists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worked on the film and acted in it plainly have a real feeling for jazz and the feeling shows up on the screen with honesty and warmth. The genial touch of Elliott Paul (see BOOKS) is often clear in the script; the Negro musicians-notably Armstrong, Singer Billie Holiday, Trombonist Kid Ory and Guitarist Bud Scott-act and play their music with freedom and pleasure. At the end, regrettably, jazz becomes "respectable"-probably the worst break it could...
There were 31 musicians on the stand, and in everybody's mind was the memory of a 32nd: Trombonist Glenn Miller, their former leader, who was killed 2½ years ago in a plane crash over the English Channel. The band still carried around Miller's custom-made trombone. Last week crowds who jammed into the huge casino heard the familiar sweet ballad style-a clear, wan clarinet leading a throaty quartet of saxophones in the melody, backed by a powerhouse of brass-that had once made Glenn Miller the No. 1 jukebox favorite...
...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...
Divorced. Jack Teagarden, 42, veteran trombonist of the pre-swing, Bix Beiderbecke era of jazz; by his second wife, Adeline Barriere Teagarden, 32; after four years; in Los Angeles...
...private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went to bed for a week with sinus trouble. Trombonist Jack Teagarden, whose theme song is I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues, was sued for divorce. Errol Flynn, back to Hollywood from Jamaica for the birth of his second wife's second child, had a broken foot (from tennis, he said...