Word: clarinetist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays the expected ones too, but only on request or by whim. "Peg O' My Heart" got a scornful but amazingly inventive treatment the night I last heard Sutton, while a private joke with clarinetist peanuts Hucko produced a "Sugar Blues" that laughed at Duchin and Peewee Hunt but wound up with three choruses that were all Sutton, joke or no joke...
...Trombonist Jack Teagarden, Pianist Earl ("Father") Hines, Drummer Cozy Cole, Clarinetist Barney Bigard and Bass Fiddler Arvell Shaw, plus Vocalist Velma Middleton...
Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
...only member of the orchestra not shown in this picture is a clarinetist...