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...Crimson Stompers, a Dixieland band, will play at the jazz concert. Trumpeter Paul Watson of the Vinal Rhythm Kings has promised to join them...
Biggest news of the moment is a gathering of the clan scheduled for Saturday afternoon in the Lowell House Common Room from 4 to 7 o'clock. Charley Vinal's Rhythm Kings will be there and "Mezz" Mezzrow is planing in from New York where be is currently featured with Art Hodes at Ryan's on 52nd Street. Those who attend the Bates game in the stadium are cordially invited to drop over after the last whistle and hear Harvard's first big-time live jam session since last September...
...free love--late and irregular hours--overwhelming conceit; all are closely associated with the average jazz musician by the general public. However, we who have known Charley Vinal can certainly point with pride to a man who was not only a credit to his profession but also an outstanding example of clean-living American youth...
George Frazier '33, was one of the first critics to "discover" this young man who despite the physical disability which confined him to a wheelchair, had a personality so magnetic as to draw one great musician after another on the 15 mile pilgrimage to the Vinal hozze in South Weymouth. On a home records waxings were made of Charley jammings with Josh White, Frank Newton, J. Jones, Basie, and the Crosby band to mention only a few. With one musical climax following another, the apex of Charley's career may be said to have occurred this past summer when, under...
...Tuesday, April 25, after a brief illness, Charley Vinal died of pneumonia. In order to carry on his fine musical tradition, his friends will gather at the Cantabrigia Club this Sunday afternoon for a Jam Session dedicated...