Word: trumpeteering
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...when Louis Prima was still involved in the unprofitable business of playing jazz, he was no more important than any other "paesano" to the vast Italian population of this country. But just two weeks ago, when the agents of WHCN went in town to get the New Orleans-born trumpet man for their Jazz Orgy, the stage entrance was literally jammed with enthusiastic autograph seekers from Hanover Street...
...some of those ancient fossilized discs by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Crosby and Dorsey if you doubt it. The older numbers were almost always played in a hell-for-leather tempo with a lot of those pogo stick ragtime mannerisms. The trumpet was considerably more limited in function, the rhythm less obviously two-beat, and the trombone quite tuba-like. The amount of electrical excitement generated by the old timers was considerable, however, a quality with which their successors do not seem much concerned...
...Minute Test. Hurok's own musical accomplishment consists in having once played the balalaika badly, which puts him in a class with Caesar Petrillo, who was bad on the trumpet. Hurok lets the public pick his artists. He spends hours in the box office, listening to what price seats customers ask for, to judge what traffic an artist will bear. During intermissions he slips quietly through the crowd, eavesdropping on customer comment. Says he: "When I discover an artist I sit in the audience just like the public. ... If you sit 25 minutes without squirming and your eyes...
...Love Me? (20th Century-Fox) is a tuneful, lushly colored, handsomely dressed, unusually foolish musical. Its three chief actors: popular Trumpeter Harry James, who makes hardly any pretense at acting but blurts his trumpet often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...