Word: trumpeteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lately there has been an enormous influx of new bands into the industry, usually led by someone who has achieved fame playing trumpet, trombone, or sax with some big band. Most of these outfits have folded or are in the process of doing so. Even bands with large names and backing before they began, such as Harry James and Jack Teagarden, are finding things pretty rocky...
...sweet job besides furnishing the "flash" solos that any band needs these days to satisfy the customers. Stewie McKay, who used to dish out hot tenor, also occasional oinks on the bassoon for Red Norvo, is dispensing for Donahue, as are Sal Pace (alto), Johhny Martel (former Goodman trumpet man), and Miff Sims (trombone), all of whom are good. Paula Kelly and Phil Brito do the vocals, both being personable and good; the former has always been one of my favorite pop tune singers...
...anti-New Dealers everywhere. Like all well-written platforms, it makes pleasant reading, paints an inspiring Utopia, but makes little sense without an analysis of the economic and social skeleton that supports it. Under such a probe, Mr. Frank's essay shows up as something far different from the trumpet call to "the good life" that it purports...
Chief cook and bottle-washer is Eli Oberstein. He is vice president, general manager of his own company, raises its capital, signs its artists, tells them how and what to play. Himself a former pianist, trumpet, trombone and tuba player, he chooses his performers with a canny ear, is well able to and does give them pointers on how to toot their own horns. He spends all his evenings In night clubs, cabarets, bars, movies, musical shows, on the lookout for new bands and new tunes. His admiring associates think he can pick a hit more unerringly than any other...
...time there will be printed here lists of what record sales and the opinion of musicians show to be really good records. Some of these are: "Just a Mood" by the Teddy Wilson Quartet (Brunswick), a blues recording done with the aid of Red Norve (xylo-phone), Harry James (trumpet), and Johnny Simmons (bass). This is blues as it should be--quiet, relaxed, and with long, luscious ideas. Harry James plays phenomenally, although I suspect that most of his solo is swiped from several old Louis Armstrong records...