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While these trips have been high points of each year for most of the bandsmen, at least one of the most love members of the group can't make them. He is Paul Touchette, a Cambridge fireman, who has been with the bend since 1947 in a top trumpet-playing capacity...
That evening in Berlin, Otto John sought out strange company for one who was head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful...
...Stars. From the oldtime start, the music came gradually up to date. Things really began to hum when Bop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie took the stage with his quintet. Looking bemused and gesturing wildly, he set his cocked trumpet* to his lips and played Gabriel-like tones that sent chills up the listeners' spines. "See, that's a square bend," he explained, pointing to the upswept angle. "Well, I get a sort of square note out of there. When you say 'Pow-w-w,' it comes out like a pounding-like a pounding of bricks...
Brad Gowans and His New York Nine (Victor LP). Dixieland of 1946, a mellow but not a vintage year. Gowans is probably the leading exponent of hot valve trombone; his playing is matched by Billy Butterfield's fine trumpet. Notable as the last recording by the late great drummer Dave Tough...
Bird Sanctuary. The average age of the symphony's 65 players is 22. Conductor Schermerhorn himself is a fairly typical member of the orchestra: he is 24, comes from Schenectady, studied at the New England Conservatory of Music and Tanglewood, has played trumpet in Boston and Kansas City orchestras...