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Eight selections by almost-blind Pianist Tatum, deserving hero of a whole generation of jazzmen, nimble Guitarist Everett Barksdale, and Slam Stewart, the man with the talking bass fiddle. Typical selections: a surrealist version of September Song, and Just One of Those Things, which goes like sixty...
Percussion in a nearly pristine state, but not nearly so frightening as it might seem from the line-up of instruments (partial roster: three bass drums, seven timpani, three xylophones, a glockenspiel, a gunshot machine and five pebble-filled cocktail shakers). Especially designed for hi-fi fans, but one number (Happy Little Woodpile) has pop possibilities...
...perch and catfish of the Potomac River. Thomas Jefferson, accompanied by his Secretary of State and successor, James Madison, traveled 300 miles by coach to fish for trout in ... Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask in secret...
...most important innovation: the combination in a grand piano of a rigid cast-iron frame with "overstringing." The first permitted near doubling of string-tension. The second carried the treble strings diagonally across the center of the soundboard, which then amplified them as much as it did the long bass strings. The resulting increase in strength and power made the Steinway a world standard...
...aigrettes, a white mink coat), Sophie sat down to a filet mignon dinner with some 1,700 admirers, who paid their way in with $165,000 for theatrical charities. It was really Sophie's 49th year in show business, but, as she happily explained in her rain-barrel bass: "Honey, I'm all booked up next year; there wouldn't have been time then." The air was damp with sentiment as a succession of old friends and fans, e.g., General James Van Fleet, Ralph Bunche, Tallulah Bankhead, George Jessel, Millon...