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...riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat and Fats Waller style. Walter Gross's efforts with Mozartiana and The Way You Look Tonight are pretty and carefully arranged...
Lover and Little White Lies (Oscar Peterson; Mercury). An accomplished Canadian pianist ties these two cocktail favorites into knots with fingers that rival Art Tatum's and Fats Waller's at their nimblest...
Married. James Branch Cabell, 71, 50-book Virginia author, whose refined preciosity, elaborately tortured allegory and subtly understated bawdry made his novels (Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, Smirt, Smith, Smire, etc.) critical and popular favorites in the '20s and '30s; and Margaret Waller Freeman, 56, Manhattan interior decorator; he for the second time; in Richmond...
...blind men's band. The leader used a specially designed baton that made an audible swoosh so the musicians could follow his beat. At one time or another George had played with most of Britain's top dance bands. Among his fans was the late Fats Waller, who assured Shearing, "You'll kill them in America...
Headache Factories. By the time blond, good-natured Shearing made the trip to the U.S., his friend Waller was dead and something called bop was mushrooming in 52nd Street basements. Shearing took the best job he could get: a union-scale, six-night-a-week grind in a 52nd Street club. Surrounded by bop addicts, Shearing's piano soon lost its English accent, picked up American "progressive" doubletalk. But conservative Shearing stopped short of the bop-for-bop's-sake which was turning some U.S. jazz joints into headache factories, instead concentrated on what is called "polite...