Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's 66th National Horse Show grew most exciting when a U.S. Army jeep toted jumps and fences into the ring and pink-coated Honey Craven, ringmaster, blew a fanfare on his long, thin trumpet. The stable owners in evening clothes, the teen-age girls who had come to show off their saddle horses, the grooms along the ringside, now all waited tensely for the real stars: the jumpers. About to begin as the competition for the President of Mexico Trophy, toughest of the international jumping events...
...Composer Wolpe. 52, has hewed his way to extremes of modernity. Passacaglia (played by David Tudor) was written in the early '30s, is as dissonant and involved as the more recent Violin Sonata (with Frances Magnes and Tudor). Composer Wolpe has taught jazz musicians, and his Quartet for Trumpet (Bob Nagel), Tenor Sax (Al Cohn), Piano (Jack Maxin) and Percussion (Al Howard) has, a barely recognizable jazz flavor. Performances: superb...
Died. Oran ("Hot Lips") Page, 46, barrel-chested, gravel-voiced jazzman whose warm-toned, wildly improvised trumpet playing on such records as The Sheik of Araby and Hucklebuck brought him the international accolades of jazz addicts; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Teen-Age Dance Session (Dan Terry & his Orchestra; Columbia LP). A big, smooth band follows the tradition of the swinging '305 in eight new tunes with teen-age titles (Denim Blues, Saddle Shoe Shuffle). Terry plays some pretty, growly trumpet, and the ensemble is fine...
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...