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...days ago a strike called by the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers' Aircraft Division union closed the large Vultee Aircraft Corporation plant at Downey, Cal. Cause of the strike was the refusal of the Vultee Co. to grant wage increases to approximately 3000 men whose basic wage was 50 cents an hour. The union claimed that $20 a week was not enough for a man to support a family decently, and asked that the sunken wage floor in the Vultee plant be raised to 75 cents an hour. With $84,000,000 in profitable foreign and domestic orders on its books...
...once aggressive and relaxed. They have been accused of playing noises, but this isn't true. There's a clear-cut distinction between a band that screams because it's expected to and a band that drives because that's the way the boys feel. Just compare the Basic brass section with Harry James' or Glenn Miller's and I think you'll see what I mean. There are swing bands and swing bands, but the Count is unique in having an ensemble whose savage attack is purely spontancous, and consequently relaxed. Now this word "relaxed," I realize, has become...
Finally I'd like to mention the heartbeat of this collective cuthusiasm the rhythm section. Count Basic may not be your favorite orchestra, but you'll have to go far to find a rhythm section as completely sensitive to the ensemble attack and phrasing, as the Count's. Remember that with four men Jo Jones on drums, Freddic Green on guitar, Walter Page on bass, and Basie himself on piano--the experiment of using the section as a solo unit was first carried out. Listen to the release choruses on records like Doggin' Around and Jumpin' at the Woodside...
NEWS AND REW RELEASES. The Count's latest: Blues featuring Lester Young's tenor sax pyrotechnics, a vocal by Jimmy Rushing, and an Earl Warren alto chorus backed by clean muted brass. Reverse, The Apple Jump, is graced by a very delicate Basic piano solo (OKEH) ... Best Five O'clock Whistle of the week is by Will Bradley (COLUMBIA). Ray McKinley and Doc Goldberg scat their way through the novelty vocal, and Bradley takes a swell trombone ride with a tom-tom backing... Johnny Hodges steals the show on Duke Ellington's Warm Valley (VICTOR), a slow, dreamy tune, arrangement...
...military men are quick to point out, however, the change is one of equipment, not of fundamentals. Tactics are essentially the same as they have been for centuries, in spite of bombs and armored tanks. The basic idea drummed into future U. S. generals both in the R. O. T. C. and in the regular army is "Get there fustest with the mostest men," only now there are faster methods for getting there and newer ways to keep the other side away...