Word: velma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...
...hand for the ceremony was the Southern-born woman who planned the project, robust, warm-hearted Mrs. Velma Grant. In only three years, she had built and sold $3,500,000 worth of new houses to Negroes in Los Angeles. No altruist, Mrs. Grant had made a profit of more than...
...That Bop." With his present six-man outfit, the All-Stars, and 267-lb. Singer Velma Middleton, he was playing to dine & dance audiences of 1,000 a night last week in Vancouver, B.C. Most of his band, like Armstrong, had been musically famous for more than two decades, though they were only in their early 405; Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Drummer Sidney ("Big Sid") Catlett. The only youngster, 25-year-old Arvell Shaw played bass fiddle. When Louis and his All-Stars swung into West End Blues, Confessin' or Rockin...
...stuff. Ex-Ellington Trumpeter Rex Stewart and his sextet, garish in grey-green homespun and corn-yellow ties, set the joint jumping. But when Louis & his boys† burned a way through Rockin' Chair, St. Louis Blues and That's My Desire (with 200-lb. Velma Middleton rocking the lyrics), the fans really got what they came for. A forest of microphones carried the music over the French national radio, the BBC, Swiss. Belgian and Monte Carlo stations, the Finnish, Polish and Swedish networks. When the sessions in the opera house were over for the night, players from...
Girl Trouble. In Palo Alto, Calif., 100-lb. Mrs. Velma O'Day, angered by policemen who were questioning her, sent three to the hospital by kicking one of them, breaking another's rib, jabbing a cigarette in the third one's eye. In Pittsburgh, Nathaniel Evans won a divorce after he testified that his wife had threatened him (with a souvenir pistol), stabbed him (with a souvenir bayonet), and struck him (with a miniature Statue of Liberty...