Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crescent's Morden and Ertegun, who are putting out a 1,200-disc reissue this week, have enthusiastic plans for new Ory recordings this spring. Meanwhile the Kid, already expert on the five-string banjo, guitar, alto saxophone, trumpet and bass, is taking piano lessons. Mulling over his future, he concluded: "Now that I've got me a good Dixieland band, I'm going to try and play as long as I hold...
...Marlowe Morris (piano), Sidney Catlett and Joe Jones (drums), Lester Young and Illinois Jacquet (tenor sax), Red Callender and John Simmons (bass), Harry Edison (trumpet), Barney Kessel (guitar...
...career started in Montclair, NJ. where Dorothy, fired with theatrical ambitions, began dancing and singing lessons when she was scarcely out of grade school. A brother played the trumpet and two sisters were pianists. A great aunt, Catherine Hayes, had sung opera in London, Rome and Vienna. Her grandfather, James J. Beggs, had toured the world as conductor of Buffalo Bill's band, and had been one of the founders of New York's Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Dorothy's two sisters gave up their careers for marriage, and her trumpeter brother ended...
...well-known spiritual. At the Kyrie, the theme of Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen invokes the mercy of the Lord, and at the Gloria, Go Down, Moses proclaims His glory. For the profession of faith at the Credo there is the theme of Blow Your Trumpet, Gabriel. At the Sanctus and Benedictus ("Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord") are the melo dies of Goin' Home and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and at the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) the devout and placid music of Deep River...
...Government. It has behaved with the same correctness toward Britain's Conservative Government. The Soviet press, however, never hesitates to exercise its claws on individual citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called him "admiral of an ink pool" (Baldwin had said that Red Army advances were in part German retreats...