Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Davison stands by the old Chicago tradition of using a cornet instead of a trumpet, but that hardly precludes comparison with James. Bill may not rake in the shekels, but he plays good music far more consistently. Those who have been attracted to the Ken by Pee Wee Russell's fame and clarineting have invariably stayed to hear Davison. On the basis of tone alone, or ideas alone, he is undoubtedly a top-ranking musician. James may play more obviously difficult pieces, but Davison occasionally gets off some amazingly technical stuff himself, and this always in good taste...
Forest Lawn also boasts a huge, earthquake-proof mausoleum inspired by Campo Santo in Genoa. Its Wee Kirk o' the Heather exactly reproduces the church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Its Little Church of the Flowers reproduces Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his Elegy. At Forest Lawn, says the prospectus, "undertaking is combined with all forms of interment in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement for everything...
...Wee Russell, Bill Davison, and Gene Shraeder, professional jazz stars now playing at the Ken Club in Boston, livened up the first 15 minuted of the program with some old jam session favorites including "Royal Garden Blues" and "The Jazz Me Blues...
...Wee Excels...
...Wee was in fine form and his famous "dirty" clarinet had many of his listeners' feet tapping in time. Davison's cornet solos and Schraeder's piano barrelhouse also drew plenty of cheers from the crowd. But two Harvard musicians, Stu Grover '45, on drums, and Pamelia, whose saxophone playing George Frazier, Boston Herald swing columnist, called in "the Bud Freeman tradition," stayed right in there with them...