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This is painfully true when Ray Nance, an ordinary trumpet player, a poor violinist, and an unnecessarily heavy-handed showman, is out in front as soloist. It is definitely not required that a violinist assume an agonized, orgiastic expression in order to produce a simple passage; Nance was such a phony mugger that when he trotted out for his last violin solo the crowd laughed before he even began to play. Nance would never have been tolerated in the old Ellington band, and there would have been no room for such ordinary musicians as Skippy Williams and Jimmy Hamilton...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
Everybody who attended the last company smoker was impressed with Garvey's ability to whistle and also to make like a trumpet. So whenever you introduce the man after this, always refer to him as "the talented Mr. Garvey." Incidentally he's an ex-newspaperman from Poughkeepsie...
...kitchen table. In Kansas City, whoever made off with S. W. Porter's car got with it a collection of religious tracts and Bibles. In Philadelphia, whoever looted Juggler Walter Burns's car got an assortment of Indian clubs, colored wooden balls, spinning plates, battered hats, trumpet...
Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols, erstwhile leader of the jazz-famous Five Pennies, got some publicity in the rat-ridden little California town of Albany. The Mayor had called for a good extermination plan. In an attempt to pied-pipe the rats, Nichols started tooting his trumpet in the center of town, started marching toward the Bay. A few children and photographers were all that followed...