Word: alec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book, although many of the examples are certainly not the best of a particular band or player's work. Almost every big band of today that ever recorded a riff is mentioned, and there are some reflections on the quality of big-band arrangements. You'll find even the Alec Wilder Octet and the Golden Gate Quartet, not usually welcomed into the jazz household, but the line had to be drawn somewhere, and the door slammed before Hazel Scott and Carmen Cavallaro...
...Pole Vault, Mitch Ford and Steve Brooks, the Crimson entries, have been sick recently, and so are not in shape. But they should be right up there, together with Sherry of Rhode Island State. Coach Mikkela's other entries are Gerry Lenane, Alec Rogerson, Len Wright, and Bob Chase...
...protest blues," was beginning to take effect on listeners like Conductor Wilfred Pelletier of the Metropolitan Opera. Soon Benny Goodman arrived, said "Hi" to the assembled thinkers and blew into his clarinet. In the early dawn he was still going strong. So were Mouth-Organist Larry Adler, Pianist Alec Templeton, and the dogged panel of classicists. By that time the classicists more or less agreed: it would be all right for Manhattan's Station WQXR to broadcast blues...
Married. John Alec Kimbrough, 23, Texas A. & M. All-America halfback (1939-40); and Barbara Golding, 18, Marymount College sophomore; in Manhattan...
...Peaceful in the Country (Harry James; Columbia). Sapling Tunesmith Alec Wilder (Neurotic Goldfish, A Debutante's Diary) gets both music and meaning into the ballad of the month...