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...regard to the present band backing Louis, it is an excellent outfit. Jay Higgenbothem (trombone) is one of the greatest, Pops Foster (bass) removes all walls and other obstacles when he starts swingin', and Red Allen (trumpet) offers excellent opportunity for comparison with Louis with his fast technical style...
...Riffs" might sound a little better if played at a slower tempo. . . Richard Himber's imitation of Basie and other bands is done quite well (Victor) . . . About the Goodman Quintet's record of "Pick-A-Rib" (Victor): It sounds to me as if his brother Harry were the bass player on the record. And brother Harry runs a barbecue on 52nd Street in New York known as the Pick-A-Rib. That wouldn't be an advertisement, would it? The first side is uniformly bad, sounding something like one of Ray Scott's compositions. The second, done in boogie-woogie...
Plain, long-nosed, sandy-haired young Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, who has a grand bass voice and reintroduced "frugality" to the U. S. vocabulary last month, made the statement of the evening. Said he: "There is no substitute for a good job in private industry...
...like a minnow last week as he read about the feat of a handsome Miami girl named Frances Laidlaw. With a 3-ounce bait-casting rod and a small bait-casting reel which held 85 yards of No. 6-thread linen line-about the same tackle appropriate to sporty bass fishing-loa-lb. Frankie Laidlaw had landed a tarpon weighing...
...While Tenor Ivan Kozlovsky and Basso V. Y. Droviannikov sang their lines in Rigoletto at Moscow's famed Bolshoi Theatre, Tenor Kozlovsky, noted for his freakishly large range, suddenly began to sing bass. Surprised, annoyed, but not to be outdone, Droviannikov lifted himself into a strangled tenor. Backstage, later, the two singers had to be separated by stagehands. The Soviet All-Union Committee on Art branded the ruckus as inexcusable "naughtiness," warned all singers to stay in their own range...