Word: solos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical influence goes, every trumpet player in the country copies Louis to some extent. The best "solo" Harry James ever played, "Just a Mood" was lifted note for note from one of the old Louis records. Bunny Berigan, Roy Eldridge, and the whole crowd not only copy his ideas, but try unsuccessfully to imitate his phrasing, the secret of Louis' greatness. Father Hines learned some of it from him and started the "trumpet" style piano from which present piano-men get their ideas. Louis can take three notes and make them mean more than fifty by anybody else. The reasons...
...Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). For the hot library, especially notable for a fine trombone obbligato (by Bobby Byrne) behind the concluding solo...
Ginger Rogers' precocity was not confined to her stage career. At eleven, she played a piano solo of MacDowell's To a Wild Rose in a Fort Worth auditorium. At 17, she married a vaudeville hoofer named Edward (Jack) Culpepper. Ginger left Culpepper three months later, divorced him, married Hollywood Actor Lew Ayres in 1935, separated from him the same year. At present unattached, she lives with her mother in the highest house on Beverly Crest, in Beverly Hills...
...Only two solo parts have been arranged. The soloists chosen by Woodworth are Fred Rogosin '39 and Harrison McK. Rainie, Jr. '40. Although four Freshmen made the grade last year, only one Yardling is to participate in the present series...
...Three solo shows in Manhattan this week invited critics to speculate on the artistic possibilities of the terrible, the humane and the naive...