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Tatum, Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Mel Powell, and taking a more than occasional fling at jazz herself "behind locked doors...
Oscar Peterson Collates, No. 2 (Clef LP). Unquenchable Jazz Pianist Peterson plays eight numbers, turns a new facet in every one. In tameless he is a firm-footed bopster a la Lennie Tristano; in Until the Real Thing Comes Along he chuckles along like a latter-day Fats Waller; his How High the Moon is rhythmically soulful, with fistfuls of notes; he toys with I Get a Kick Out of You like a playful kitten...
...Gennett catalogues, is busily transferring the best numbers to durable LPs. Result: some of the earthiest jazz heard in captivity anywhere. Best of the lot: some really gone blues by Singer Ma Rainey, known as the teacher of more famed Bessie Smith, and eight stomping numbers by Fats Waller, most of them previously available only on oldtime piano rolls...
Died. William Waller Hawkins, 69, former chairman of the board of the 19 Scripps-Howard newspapers, onetime (1920-23) president of United Press; of influenza; in Miramar, Calif. Quiet, pincenezed Bill Hawkins was an effective complement to dynamic Roy Howard in their 46-year working partnership. They teamed up when U.P. was founded to rival the formidable A.P.; Howard became its globe-trotting president-reporter-publicist, Hawkins the steady harvester of clients, organizer of bureaus. Hawkins succeeded Howard as U.P. chief, followed him to Scripps-Howard, succeeded him in 1936 as board chairman when Howard became president...
...Fats Waller...