Word: waller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Hot Pianist James P. Johnson and Hot Saxophonist Sidney Bechet, in a tribute to the late Fats Waller...
...Summaries: Navy: Fisher (N) defeated Backe (H), 2-0. Tufts (H) defeated Jagoe (N) 2-0. Vogt (N) defeated Coon (H), 2-0. Fishman (N) defeated Levin (H) 2-0. Wightman (H) defeated Tift (N), 2-1, Pratt (H) defeated Waller (N), 2-0. Jagoe and Tift (N) defeated Ennis and Wightman (H), 2-0. Fisher and Vogt (N) defeated Backe and Coon (H), 2-0. Pratt and Levin (H), defeated Tift and Fishman...
...timers and Charley Shavers for the new-have a seesaw tug of war over a weird New Orleans type of riff intricately decorated by Dave Tough's exotic drumming. Joe Sullivan's piano solo on the second chorus of "Honey Suckle Rose" is an imaginative recollection of Fats Waller and "Wild Bill" ploughs a safe and sane path through the final chorus of "Sentimental Baby." It almost sounds as if, God forbid, he was reading it off a score, there are so few sour notes...
Jazz without Labels. For short, smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them...
Revision Committee members in addition to Considine are William H. Bozman, HLU; Andrew S. Crichton, representing Dunster House; Joseph D. Everingham, Kirkland; George R. Hooper, Winthrop; Walter Flynn, Dudley; Jules Rabin, AVC; Joseph Sharlitt, CRIMSON assistant editorial chairman; Marvin S: Traub, Adams; and Jack Waller, Lowell...