Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kneeling Worshipers. In Helsinki, 7,500 devotees crowded a hall built for 3,600, cheered the old New Orleans standbys that Louis played for them. In Copenhagen, the director of the State Symphony Orchestra dismissed afternoon rehearsal so that his musicians could go and hear Satchmo's golden trumpetings of High Society and Royal Garden Blues. In Turin, Armstrong worshipers squatted or knelt in the theater aisles when all seats were filled. Rome's welcome was the biggest yet. Armstrong played three sellout concerts, got embraced by Italian Cinema Queen Anna Magnani (Open City). Sightseeing in the Coliseum...
...beat and blare of the fervid little quintet seemed familiar and so did most of the names: Ingle, Estes, Williams, Bodtkin. But behind the trumpet, instead of the famous "Red" Ingle, Hollywood jazz fans saw a curly-haired youngster of 18-Ingle's son Don. At the traps, in place of "Ace" Estes, was Estes' skinny, long-nosed boy Gene, 18. They counted off the same way right around the stand. Last week, devoutly following in their fathers' solid-beat footsteps, the famous sons' five were the hottest band in Hollywood...
...snag is that few ears besides Author Maugham's are likely to pick up the trumpet call of inspiration from yesterday's commonplaces ("The [Fijian] chief who received me was a nephew of the last king and . . . was dressed in a pair of short white pants"). Moreover, though he may be forgiven for crooning in the days of his youth, "My soul seemed a stringed instrument upon which the Gods were playing a melody of despair," it is wearying, 40 years later, to hear the same theme strummed on the same wet banjo: "The moan of the wind...
...Bulwark. It had been just 25 years since Guy with his fiddle, brother Carmen with his saxophone and brother Lebert with his trumpet had crossed over from London, Ont. to Cleveland, fired by Paul Whiteman's records, to get their own band into the big time. It had been 20 years since the band began its first season at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel; last week, when they began their 20th straight season at the Roosevelt, eight of the original nine members of the Royal Canadians were still there. And finally it was just 15 years since...
...confident but unpretentious and modest man of 47 who goes in for motorboat cup-racing (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947), Big Brother Guy gives most of the credit to brother "Carm," 46, whose distinctive singing, saxophone and phrasing have always set the tone of the band. Lebert's trumpet playing Guy rates almost as high. He puts his own talents at the bottom: "My fiddle never did anything." In fact, it's been years since he played...