Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally, is probably the most unappreciated jazz musician alive), slips in a tenor ride passage and Herman Autrey a trumpet. Finally, Fats takes the release, and by the time everybody else comes...
...budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said before about the U. S., including the charge that the U. S. is trying to "intervene" in East Asia, and ended his most vocal week with the statement: "As long as the United States regards China instead of the East Pacific as its first line of defense, just so long will friendly relations remain an idle dream...
...Masterpiece was commissioned by Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, an up-&-coming outfit spark plugged by an energetic socialite, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden. The Academy paid Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with...
Divorced. Major Alford J. Williams Jr., 44, Scripps-Howard columnist, Gulf Oil aviation manager, most vocal U. S. proponent of the Douhet theory of aerial Blitzkrieg; by Florence Hawes Williams, 38, after 15 years' marriage; in Reno...
...last week the opposition to the Avila Camacho counterrevolution had become both vocal and violent. Since the new President's inauguration a steady stream of Nazi agents has filtered into the country. Last week Nazis and Communists were distributing pamphlets denouncing the "counter-revolution backed by Yanqui Imperialism." The Government had to call out police armed with rifles and tear gas to keep an eye on the demonstration in Mexico City...