Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member of the original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session. But whether...
...band. The band, organized by Messrs. Oliver and Lysing, consists of eight men with previous experience in some field of music, and now furnishes the rhythm for the dances Monday and Wednesday evenings. They are: James W. Oliver, 4-43, Bates College '35 and Lewiston, Maine. Jim plays the trumpet and has taught it to private students as a sideline. He had his own 15-piece orchestra in Lewiston, and once was heard over a national hookup with the Fenton Brothers Orchestra on the Fitch Bandwagon...
Melvin A. "Mel" Otterson, 4-43, Florida Southern College '41, and Miami. He plays the bass viol, and got his training at New Hampshire State Teachers College, where he was assistant band and orchestra conductor. He specializes in arranging and plays the electric guitar and the trumpet--this versatile gent also composes on the side...
Paul N. Lideen, 6-43, Northwestern '36 and Larchmont, New York. He plays trumpet for NTS and got most of his experience touring the Orient with a dance band...
...Fanfare, a French word of possible Moorish derivation, is allied to the Elizabethan stage directions sennet (also senet, sennate, cynet, signet, signate) and tucket, both indicating musical flourishes. There are no musical samples extant of sennets and tuckets. Sennet may have derived from "seven," perhaps meant a seven-note trumpet call. Tucket most probably stems from the Italian toccata (meaning a touch), and in all likelihood originally signified a drum sound...