Word: trumpeters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
...black man dressed incongruously in a cowboy hat and a loud Hawaiian shirt was standing near the entrance, listening to the sounds coming from within. It was George ("Kid Sheik") Colar, 74, a veteran trumpet player with a ready grin and an infectious laugh. Would he recognize me after so long? "Sheik!" The face turned, the eyes looked puzzled for an instant behind their black-rimmed glasses. Then that wonderful laugh shattered the silence...
...professionals were joined by dozens of other players who, unable to make a living, had hung up their instruments long before. Soon they were all playing together again as though the clock had been turned back. "A whole lot of us had given up," remembers Percy Humphrey, 77, a trumpet player who has since traveled around the world with a Preservation Hall touring band. "I never did think it could happen in my life, playing to crowds of 30,000 to 40,000 on our tours. But the good Lord answered my prayers...
...twice earlier this month before his resignation was accepted by an irritated President Sandro Pertini. In the resulting political vacuum, Pertini last week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare and the mandate to form Italy's 43rd postwar government was the Christian Democratic president of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani...
...servicemen in Indochina during the 1960s. During intermission, retired General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam from 1964 to 1968, signed autographs. The hardest working star was Wayne Newton, who flew in from Las Vegas and performed gratis. For 90 minutes, he played the banjo and trumpet, sang soul songs and Danke Schön, danced and winked. Said one Wisconsin vet: "I wouldn't have picked Wayne Newton. But I don't know why we're here either...