Word: workouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only other race of the weekend is the combination race on Friday evening in which the substitutes of both boats will race. Here again, from their showings during the week's workout at Red Top, the Crimson boat should be first home...
...Tatum, who long ago achieved a safe middle ground between Bach and boogie-woogie. He has had serious training, learns tunes from phonograph records or by using a magnifying glass and his one fairly good eye. Art Tatum's showers of notes in jazz rhythm-as in his workout with Dvorak's banal Humor-esque-pleased his Carnegie Hall audience. The evening ended in the loudest jam session ever heard in the hall, or perhaps anywhere. There were three bands-33 men in all, including six trumpeters, five drummers, nine pianists scrambling for places at three baby grands...
Lecturer Krupa's workout underlined a well-known point: that U.S. jazz sterns from Africa, via the Southern Negro. Drummer Krupa played records of drum-work by the Royal Watusi, a tribe of seven-footers. He banged on the Museum's signal drums, war drums, dance drums. He showed how his own famed Blue Rhythm Fantasy (scored for 14 percussion instruments) is based on Bahutu chants and dances, in which the savage hand-clapping is pure eight...
...spring's third time-trial Coach Tom Bolles' first eight showed its stern to the other three Varsity boats by a decisive distance in a workout over the rough mile and three-quarter course of the Charles River Basin late Saturday afternoon in preparation for the Rowe Cup Regatta on April...
...Killefer as examples of the strength in the forward wall. The backs are fast and most of them have worked together for three springs. Former girdiron captain Bobbie Green and Marsh Holleb can be expected to show plenty of shifty and speedy maneuvering in the afternoon's workout, ably supported by "battering ram" Muddy Waters, who is on the last leg of a colorful five years of Harvard rugby. To add to the star-studded lineup, Tommy Mountain, a Princeton football great, will do his share of kicking and running...