Word: hammer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hammer plays with both hands and has the elements of a vital blues attack in either of them . . ." So Down Beat, one of the most influential critical voices in jazz saluted a recent Hanover album entitled The Discovery of Buck Hammer...
Drawing on the album's conscientious liner notes, Down Beat explained that the late Pianist Hammer was a shy fellow from Glen Springs, Ala., who committed his art to posterity only once, at a recording session in Nashville, Tenn. in 1956. Another glowing Hammer review appeared in the New York World-Telegram & Sun: "His recent death was a tragic loss . . . A great album." Then San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Ralph J. Gleason played the record, found that Buck had an advantage over other pianists -he was apparently born with three hands. Last week the perpetrator of the hoax confessed that...
...Allen got the idea for the album when he heard Alto Saxophonist Julian ("Cannonball") Adderley insist on TV one evening that jazz criticism is "a joke." Allen scribbled several funky tunes (Hackensack Train, Fink's Mules, Too Fat Boogie) and recorded them as the work of Pianist-Composer Hammer. He tricked up some of the tracks by recording first the bass, then the upper register and gluing them together. Under a second assumed name - Ralph Goldman - he wrote some typically pretentious liner notes: "Like Peck Kelly of Texas and Joe Abernathy of New York, Hammer has become a legendary...
...brought economic pressure to bear to destroy the coalition and succeeded in forcing the appointment of a new government from which the ministers Moscow disapproved were excluded. Hungary convinced many Finns that in any open quarrel with Russia, their country would have to fight alone. Besides, Russia got a hammer lock on the Finnish economy, or at least a half nelson, by exacting such heavy reparations after World War II that the Finns, in order to pay them, had to set up industry for which Russia is the only real market...
...American is threatening to cut worldwide fares on its own next summer, and BOAC is ready to extend lower fares to British colonies around the world. IATA has until the end of March to hammer out a compromise. If it fails, the organization may break up as fares fall...