Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clarinetist Prince Robinson ("Say he's from New Orleans," says Max. "That's a good place to be from.") is an Armstrong alumnus from way back, and does indeed play in the very ancient Crescent City tradition. Kaminsky blows his horn with a sharper, thinner tone and with less imagination than in past days; it comes out a New York or modern-Chicago style. And trombonist Munn Ware alternates strangely between a "suffering" blues tone and the most modern, polished sound of the three...
Died. Kenneth Burt Griffin, 43, Chicago radio voice (actor, announcer, master of ceremonies), familiar to serial fans as Vic Hardy of ABC's Jack Armstrong; of undetermined causes; in Chicago...
...Show (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guests: Bob Hope, Martin & Lewis, Louis Armstrong...
...after Louis Armstrong, second best alive...
...with accompanying chanting) Dry Bones; the wordless wonders of Dark Was the Night, intoned by "spiritual" singer Blind Willie Johnson; Black Snake Moan, moaned by Blind Lemon Jefferson (Lead Belly's teacher); performances by such favorites as Bessie Smith, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Yancey and Louis Armstrong...