Word: trumpeteer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had been a plot, and if Betty Grable and John Payne could do some thing more than look like Mr. and Mrs. Superman, "Springtime In the Rockies" might have been something more than a hot trumpet solo by Harry James in technicolor. But you can't toss off Carmen Miranda, as much the gleeful eyeful as ever, whose antics are as refreshing as a Navy Smoker...
...those who heard Davision this summer, his remarkable trumpet-playing needs no recommendation. At the time, however, he was overshadowed by Pee Wee Russell's name, though not by his playing. Now you can listen to five really great jazzmen whose names mean nothing to most people, and hear some swell music without regard to reputation...
...well-known compositions were grouped so as to feature the soloists in the orchestra. But as Duke was so careful to avoid having two people playing the same style on the same instrument, there was no real opportunity to appraise Ray Nance's or newcomer Harold Baker's hot trumpet work. Which is just as well, as Rex Stewart stopped the show with his famous solo on "Boy Meets Horn." Rex did the best soloing of the evening, hitting new lows, in notes, that is. Nance played the violin instead, on "Bakiff," and came very close to persuading me that...
...scenery's great when Betty Grable, John Payne and the Canadian Rockies get together. Add a dash of technicolor and flavor with Harry James' hot trumpet and you might have something in the way of escapist fare. But "Springtime in the Rockies" barely escapes with its life after being mistreated by such cinema bogeys as lack of plot and the inability of Grable or Payne to do much more than look very much like Mr. and Miss Atlantic City...
...hundred years ago this week, a Connecticut Yankee named Ureli Corelli Hill* launched the Philharmonic Society of New York. Impresario Hill, who looked something like a burlesque Irishman, could not find a second trumpet player. But with a dauntless lack of finesse the Philharmonic gave its first program in the gaslit Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway: Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, Weber's Oberon Overture and a Gargantuan assortment of operatic arias sung by a lady named Madame Otto. To finance his first season, Ureli Corelli Hill persuaded each man in the orchestra to chip...