Word: vibraphonist
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Runnin' Wild (Teddy Wilson and the All Stars; MGM, 8 sides). Old favorites such as Bugle Call Rag, Stompin' at the Savoy, I Surrender Dear, well played by the pixie-fingered professor (of jazz piano at Juilliard School of Music) and such cohorts as Trumpeter Buck Clayton, Vibraphonist Red Norvo. Not too well recorded...
...total obliteration is well-nigh impossible, accepted jamming practice is to do the next best thing: make such exasperating, excruciating noises that listeners turn to another station rather than be driven nuts. One favorite Axis jamming signal is a series of musical tones repeated interminably, as if a mad vibraphonist were banging away rapidly with one mallet. Another sounds like a collection of piercingly shrill peanut whistles...
Goodman himself has been one of the first to grant the colored musician equal opportunity to star in the big time. Ever since Teddy Wilson joined him in 1935 he has had one or more Negroes occupying important places in his organization. Wilson and Lionel Hampton, the versatile vibraphonist and demon of the two-fingered piano, both gained so much publicity that they have now broken off and launched their own bands. And now Charlie Christians and Cootie Williams, two other colored virtuosi, are performing with Goodman's sextet...
...sentimental over the death of his friend, the immortal Bix Beiderbecke. Louis waxed enthusiastic about Benny Goodman. He admires him not only as a clarinet player but as a white band leader who has had the courage to hire Negro artists such as the pianist Teddy Wilson and the vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, who are to be heard in the superb recordings of Benny Goodman's quartet...