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Blessings come doubly this week, from Lowell and Leverett. The good news from Lowell is that the Art Hodes band, which S/Sgt. George Avakian raved about in this column two weeks ago, will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring...
Reference your column "Jazz, Etc." on page 6 of the July 6 SERVICE NEWS, suggest you investigate the Hofbran in Lawrence, Mass. I understand Art Hodes is there with a small band, personnel unknown. S/Sgt. George M. Avakian...
...Hackett, Coleman Hawkins, Lips Page, Pec Wee Russell, Joe Sullivan, and Sidney Catlett. All of these musicians have nothing but the best to say for their less famous colleagues. Furthermore, a number of critics have been pricking up their ears recently. George Frazier drives down from Boston, and George Avakian makes the trek from New York. Really, this is something very special, and you'll be letting yourself in for plenty of fine swing music if you get in on the ground floor. Muggsy Spanier will be there this Sunday--he's worth driving to Chicago to hear...
...called Jazz Information, and it's also published in New York. Editor Gene Williams, a Columbia graduate, writes his own record reviews, and has done much valuable work in the field of record collecting, bringing to light obscure yet excellent musicians, and the like. Contributors have included George Avakian, who is responsible for Decca's Chicago Jazz Album and many of the Columbia reissues, George Frazier, who is more or less responsible for Bobby Hackett, and a number of other well-known critics, musicians, photographers and artists. Each issue carries a comprehensive news column with complete information on where your...
...Cootie's trumpet, the best sax section in the world, and some extremely imaginative orchestration by Eddie Sauter on the reverse, Benny Rides Again. On the latter, Sauter ignores any conventional form and just lets his mood carry him away--with the help of the band (COLUMBIA). . . George Avakian, of Yale and Columbia Records, recently had the good fortune to discover some previously unissued Louis Armstrong sides, which COLUMbia has just released. Most interesting is Ory's Creole Trombone, a good example of the old New Orleans parade style . . . Another COLUMBIA reissue that should be on your list is Benny...