Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill called The Paddock. The lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
...jazz fan put it: "There'll be better trumpet players. But they won't learn jazz as Oscar did, marching in parades and funerals. And they won't play jazz the way he plays...
Marriage Revealed. Ethel Merman, 44, trumpet-voiced songstress of stage & screen (Call Me Madam); and Robert Forman Six, 45, oilman president of Continental Air Lines; he for the second time, she for the third (her second marriage, to American Weekly Publisher Robert D. Levitt, ended in divorce last year); in Mexicali, Mexico, on March...
...much to expect that the nervousness and uncertainty would be allowed to get out of hand. Georgy Malenkov & Co. are postgraduates in the school of power, who may scoff at the Bible but recognize the force of a Biblical maxim: "If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle...
...best of all the movie captures on film the special talents of Ethel Merman. In her first picture since the 1938 Alexander's Ragtime Band, the trumpet-voiced queen of Broadway musicomedy annexes Hollywood as well. From the opening scene, she sparkplugs the picture with a powerhouse personality. When she is in front of the camera-kicking at her train and tugging at her girdle before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets...