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...Negroes are going to care for Invisible Man. Ellison, a Tuskegee graduate who has shined shoes and played first trumpet in a jazz band, obviously thinks little of Negroes who educate themselves beyond the point of sympathy for their underprivileged brethren. He has no prescriptions except that a Negro, or any man, had better learn to be what he is. "Whenever I discover whe I am, I'll be free," says the boy. "I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own." At the end, the fog of his confusions lifting, Author Ellison...
...trainers and relatives, who seem most alive. It is not where Odets tries to be poetic but where, in hurried scribbles and scrawls, he forgets to try, that he brings a kind of impassioned feeling to life itself. His violin music is mostly pretentious, his trumpet notes today seem shrill; where he seems uniquely vivid and vibrant is on a mouth organ he pulls out of his pocket...
Edwards sings and plays the trumpet. He spent three years with Johnny Long's orchestra. His orchestra includes is pieces and a vocalist, Marilyn Grady. Edward's best known record is "Take Me in Your Arms...
...often in recordings that sound better than the originals (less surface noise, etc.). Titles of individual records: Benny Goodman Trio (Clarinetist Goodman, Pianist Teddy Wilson, Drummer Gene Krupa); Lionel Hampton; Earl Hines-Bitty Eckstine; Metronome All-Star Bands; Sidney Bechet; Jelly-Roll Morton; McKinney's Cotton Pickers; Great Trumpet Artists (Louis Armstrong, Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunk Johnson, Dizzy Gillespie); Great Tenor Sax Artists (Coleman Hawkins, Chu Berry, Bud Freeman, Illinois Jacquet, Ben Webster, Charlie Ventura); Artie Shaw Favorites...
...editor of one of the oldest Anglo-Jewish weeklies in this country, I wish to tell you how much pleasure I received from the Oct. 15 story, "A Trumpet for All Israel...