Word: wee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guest stars. This Sunday it will be Hot Lips Page, as well as Roscoe McRae . . . Speaking of jam sessions, you can hear a pretty good recorded one on the four sides issued by the Commodore Music Shop. Band features Marty Marsala (trumpet), George Brunies (trombone), Pee Wee Russell (clarinet), "Maurice" (known to his best friends as Fats Waller), Artie Shapiro (bass), Eddie Condon (guitar), and George Wettling (drums). Solos don't measure up to the standards set on the Teagarden date, but the musicians have a wonderful talent for getting together on the finish and really making the last couple...
...more desperate times of 1941, we can fall back upon any given solutions simply because they might conceivably have worked a quarter of a century ago. In solving the problem of the present, we can learn certain things from what I believe to be the blunders of the past. Wee can learn not to be misled by the merely trivial or accidental or falsely emotional. We can learn to avoid errors of method--as indeed we have learned, in refusing again to set such a trap for ourselves as Wilson's submarine policy, which put the peace of the United...
...little tired of what both the record companies and the salesrooms were offering him, put out his own recordings. The customer was a rich young Manhattan game-chicken and hot fan named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides...
Saxophonist was Bud Freeman. Negro Roy Eldridge blew a clear, jabbing, powerful trumpet. And when the band got in the groove with Strut, Miss Lizzie, the thin, brilliant, swooping clarinet runs of lean, sardonic Pee Wee Russell brought Toto's Green Haven Inn to its feet...
When Ernest Thompson Seton was a wee bairn in the North of England, his sympathies were not with Little Red Ridinghood but with the wolf. "I felt that his case was not properly presented; he acted strictly within the law, and on each occasion he got a very raw deal." When he was 31, his painting of a wolf crunching a human skull was tossed out of the Grand Salon in Paris with cries of "Horrible! In sympathy with the beast ! " Following year, in New Mexico, he resolved to stop poisoning cattle-slaying wolves. "What right. I asked...