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...trust) is old enough to rule-Roy Howard, diminutive, dandified and able, last week became the head of the empire he had helped develop. His post: chairman of a triumvirate of trustees of whom the other two will be hard-working Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins and George Bertram ("Deake") Parker, talented editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard papers...
...Beans), Scott Joplin (Maple Leaf Rag), Northrup & Confare (Cannon Ball), George Botsford (Texas Steer Rag), and Earl K. Smith (Hot Ashes). Oldtimers who heard Harney do his stuff, recall that his playing sounded very much like that of Zez Confrey (Kitten on the Keys), a little like Fats Waller...
...Gahan and his orchestra will furnish the music, and as a special entertainment feature, Leighton Guptill, sensational young New York pianist, will play during the main intermission. Guptill is famous for his complicated renditions of popular swing. In addition to this he imitates other famous pianists such as Fats Waller...
...Handy's arrangement of what is almost a U. S. folk song. Trombone Cholly, with the late Trombonist Charlie Green playing among Bessie Smith's "Blue Boys," is a classic for all connoisseurs of the "sliphorn." For Backwater Blues, James P. Johnson, teacher of "Fats" Waller, furnishes an able piano accompaniment. Only three of the twelve sides in the Bessie Smith Album are devoted to Broadway songs: Muddy Water, Alexander's Ragtime Band, There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...permanent monument to swing" is RCA Victor's phrase for its latest jazz album, A Symposium of Swing. Its four twelve-inch discs contain selections by four swing bands: Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, "Fats" Waller, Bunny Berigan. Familiar to fans who have listened to the four in their native haunts, on the air or on records, the selections are characteristic but, to experts, not the top choices. Best disc: Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing, a free fantasia in swing, based on the tune Christopher Columbus, with Drummer Gene Krupa battering out an expert tympanic melody...