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Described by one critic as ''a sort of do-it-yourself urban folk music." trad rests mainly on the standard instruments-clarinet, trumpet, trombone-but now and again tosses in a banjo for such provincial classics as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Chris Barber's Jazzband founded the movement with a bestselling version of Sidney Bechet's Petite Flew, and now the trad bands are so popular that they play everywhere-not only for jazz clubs and festivals, but also at debutante parties, society dances, on trans-Channel steamers, even waist-deep in swimming pools...
...Night on Bare Mountain and Khovanshhina (selections); Borodin's Quartet no. 2 in D major and In the Steppes of Central Asia; Rimsky-Korakov's Russina Easter Overture; Gliere's Red Poppy and Russian Sailors' Dance, Prokofiev's Symphony no. 6, Opus 111; and Pakhmutova's Concerto for trumpet in E flat minor...
...that "Taylor quickly found himself bracketed between Army Secretary Wilber Brucker, who undercut him constantly, and squabbling factions of officers." How can you condone such sloppy reporting and such a ludicrous statement about me? Your story about General Taylor used the name of his book, The Uncertain Trumpet, several times, hence you were on notice that his book contradicts your story and was most laudatory...
...officials argue that, by definition, it would be impossible for two great powers such as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to fight a limited war. But Taylor has long claimed that a limited war in Europe was indeed possible. To take the other view, Taylor says in The Uncertain Trumpet, "means that any collision of patrols would automatically result in general atomic...
...Romantic Approach (Capitol). A good big band is rare, and a new one these days is rarer. This band is one of the best Kenton ever put together. The instrumentation is unique even for one of popular music's most tireless experimenters: no strings, generous contingents of trumpets, trombones, saxes, and an instrument of Kenton's own invention -the mellophonium, midway between trumpet and trombone. The result is as smooth as butter, whipped by Kenton's artfully lagging beat and caressing tone in ballads like Moonlight in Vermont...