Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trio that can be heard today: Their interpretations far surpass in vitality and harmonic interest anything the Andrews Sisters can do. Connic Boswell's arrangements have the jazz idiom down pat. "Everybody Loves My Baby" is perhaps the best of the sides, for it includes a great trumpet solo by Bunny Berigan as well as the rousing antics of the trio.... I also liked "There'll Be Some Changes Made," sung as a blues.... Someone asked me how to get to the Savoy Cafe to hear the Frankie Newton band. Take an Egleston car from Park Street...
...Fish's memory went dead. The gangling, trumpet-tongued Congressman was on the witness stand in Washington, called there to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, veteran Nazi propaganda agent. Viereck was on trial, charged with failing to tell the State Department all about his activities. One Government witness was George Hill, World War I buddy and for some 20 years office clerk to Ham Fish. Because he had once denied knowing Agent Viereck, Hill himself was tried for perjury a few weeks ago, had been sentenced to two-to-six years in jail. He took it like...
...Count Basie's. "Harvard Blues" has sold over a hundred copies at Briggs and Briggs. That means twenty-five cents for George Frazier. Basie's publicity department ran an ad in Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will...
...past week such Ellington notables as Ben Webster and Lawrence. Brown have been sitting in with the boys regularly--high tribute in itself. There are interesting soloists on every instrument, but at least when I was there Frankie led all the rest. Last Monday, after lending Rex Steward his trumpet for a feverish ten minutes, Frankie, who always takes the last solo on each number, improvised chorus after chorus with the full, rich tone he induces from his open horn. And Rex himself clambered halfway onto the bandstand to hear him better. As George Frazier of the Herald would...
...Darling" ditty, but just another Ellington vehicle by his arranger, Billy Strayhorn. On both sides Ben Webster and Rex Stewart are presented with several grooves of wax, which they use to excellent advantage. On Clementine Rex blows a fine solo, exploiting the valves on his trumpet in the style he set in his Boy Meets Horn exhibition of a few years...