Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawyers for Bebop Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie filed suit in federal court in Rochester, N.Y. against a motorist who "wantonly, recklessly and negligently" ran Dizzy down while he was bicycling in nearby Geneva last August. Dizzy's injuries are responsible, said his lawyer, for the fact that he can "no longer reach above Trumpet-Maestro Louis Armstrong's high C and blacks out trying to reach high notes." Since, as a result, Gillespie "has been forced to reduce the size of his band from 14 to five persons." the musician wants damages totaling...
...best news for swing fans since that occasion is Columbia's new album: Jazz Concert No. 2-a transcription of 37 tunes performed by Goodman and his gang on radio programs in 1937-38. The gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James on the trumpet, Teddy Wilson at the piano, and Goodman, of course, on the clarinet. Fully warmed up and stimulated by cheering jitterbugs, they play with a brashness rarely caught on records. Among the best numbers: Bugle Call Rag, Shine, Time on My Hands...
...House the federal government would be more concerned with cleaning out Washington "messes" than those in Texas and South Carolina. To the people in Harlem, the General pictures himself as a modern Joshua, itching for the opportunity to blow down the walls of discrimination with a few well-spaced trumpet blasts. Those who read all the General's speeches, regardless of geographical location, have given up in utter confusion...
...still, there is no point in the University threatening undergraduate organizations with destruction simply for competition's sake, especially when there is ample competition already. While Cine may be no such trumpet of doom, it is likely that importation of a theatre group or a full time, two-pictures-a-week movie producer would cut down student organizations in the field...
...comic strip, using Dragnet's characters and atmosphere (but not its plots). By the firs of the year, Webb hopes to have a new show called Pete Kelly's Blues ready for TV. After his long life of crime, Jack Webb will star as a trumpet-blowing musician of the 1920s...