Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McPartland Bix Beiderbecke once said, "He's the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Most of the Bixian refrain has gone from McPartland's horn now, and he has become more of a New York-dixicland musician. But, like Bix and unlike almost all others, he doesn't startle you with his music; he just plays it "awfully pretty" in a quiet...
...Washington, the Federation of Churches bought full-page newspaper ads to trumpet: "Ii's GOD'S HOUR FOR GREATER WASHINGTON."The federation imported a "preaching team" of 30 Protestant ministers and laymen, to evangelize Washingtonians at a six-day session of some 300 breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, lectures and services. At the mission's opening ceremony in 10,000-capacity Uline Arena, 250 black-robed local ministers joined with the visiting preachers in a "Festival of Faith" which packed the hall and spilled an overflow crowd of 2,000 into a nearby church. Total attendance: an estimated...
...first big job was playing piano for Trumpeter "Bunny" Berrigan in a hole in the wall in Manhattan's "Jazz Street" (West 52nd) called The Famous Door. In 1938, Tommy Dorsey, who then had a couple of staff singers named Jo Stafford and Frank Sinatra, picked Bushkin up from Berrigan. Dorsey hired him as a pianist even before he heard him play a piano; he liked his musicianship on the trumpet-an instrument Joe had taken up in high school. One of Joe's songs, Oh, Look at Me Now, was Sinatra's first solo...
...Boston Symphony it is natural to draw some comparison between the two. The immediately striking difference is that the Royal Philharmonic has almost perfect balance. Although the Boston Symphony is a great orchestra it is well known that its brass section plays too loudly. Whenever the first trumpeter for Boston aims his trumpet at the roof and lets go, everyone in the Hall hears him above the orchestra. No comparable incident occurred yesterday afternoon...
Last year the band started off at the Savoy with the trumpet played by 20-year-old. Tufts graduate Paul Gibson, whom Gifford calls "the best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...