Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vaudeville conductor, Legrand was packed off to the Paris Conservatory at ten. There he studied to become a serious composer, took to accompanying and arranging for popular singers to help pay his way. As the demand for his arranging talents grew, he formed his own combo (tuba, banjo, drums and piano), which he expands to a full orchestra as the need arises. He scored his first big recording success in 1954, when Columbia commissioned him to arrange and do an orchestral recording of an album of schmalzy favorites to be issued under the title I Love Paris...
...staunchest of these non-conformists is the Savoy Cafe, long the stronghold of solid, two-beat Dixie. It presently features a stomping group which plays its own version of old-fashioned tuba jazz. This nightspot, perhaps the hottest in town, still allows customers enough light to read on its table cards that it has no cover or minimum...
...orchestra (in something called C collaboration). Out of the newest culture of all comes Inside Jazz Down Under, with Graeme Bell and his jazz band, and the style is pure Old New Orleans. The Aussies make it sound as if they had just invented it, jigging two beat, grunting tuba, jangling banjo...
...pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy Roosevelt is here with his high-keyed whinny, and William Jennings Bryan with the sound of a tired old tuba as he bup-bups his famous last words of the "Cross of Gold" speech...
...litter of parts and soldering irons and spoke a strange jargon full of "cycles," "decibels," "curves," "roll-offs." Pre-hi-fi sets were unable to top the violin's range (about 8,000 cycles per second) and thus were "unfaithful" to all instruments but bass drum, timpani, bass tuba, piano, French horn and trombone (played softly without mutes). So the hi-fi fan went all out for high frequencies...