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...Walsh's concert experience was garnered in three summers at the Last Chance nightclub in Poughkeepsie, New York, his home town. At the Last Chance, Walsh played one summer alone, once with his own band, and once as a small part of a dixieland band. This band featured Johnny Windhurst, a trumpet player who is considered one of the best Dixieland performers and said to be the only man alive who can play "West End Blues." "I had no business playing with him," Walsh admits. "I was just a honky--but the experience taught...
Barbara Lea (Johnny Windhurst Quintet; Prestige LP). Wellesley's gift to pop music launches her across-the-cocktail-table voice into a collection of beautifully phrased ballads that deserve a wider hearing-My Honey's Lovin' Arms, Gee, Baby Ain't I Good to You, Baltimore Oriole...
...Jazz in a Stable" disc, which features the first group to play at the Harvard New Jazz Society, is devoted to progressive and experimental music. It will be followed by a Dixieland record, "Jazz at Columbus Ave.", featuring the Johnny Windhurst quintet with Jim Andrews '58 at the piano. Later in the year the company will release "Jazz for Harvard Squares", a record angled at students who dislike jazz...
...Charlie Vinal Rhythm Kings last Sunday, and in its augmented form including trombonist. George Lugg, who was to join the band eventually. Before returning to New York on the N.H.R.R.'s midnight Owl, Lugg went out to Charlie Vinal's that night and recorded eight sides with Charlie, Johnny Windhurst, Ev Schwarz, and Jack Hart. Of course, these records will not be released, although if it weren't for wartime conditions (including my own status) I'd be inclined to issue the four best sides privately. The most successful efforts were "Squeeze Me" and "Tin Roof Blues," both in medium...
Charlie Vinal, Johnny Windhurst, and Ev Schwarz appeared last Sunday at the Jazz Club's ninth session of the season, with George Lugg coming up from New York to lend his trombone to the ensemble. George is currently with Ed Farley's band (which includes Rod Cless and Ken Duvallon of the old Art Hodes Columbia Five which served "Clarinet Marmalade" with bacon and eggs at Childs' 03rd Street Restaurant in New York). Lugg will be going to Canada for the rest of the month with the Farley band, and then opening at the Tic Toc here in town after...