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...Webster is the man to watch in Ellington's band from now on. With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today...
...member of a swing band, one of the gravest risks you run is of being killed in an automobile accident. DEATH TOLL SHOCKS BIZ headlined Variety last week. Latest death, after a crash near Conneaut, Ohio, was that of Leon ("Chu") Berry, one of the best hot saxophonists in the business. The musicians' union recently tried to reduce casualties by limiting jumps between dates to 400 miles a day. But with Berry's death the toll of bandsmen fatalities reached more than 100 this year. The hazard is not just a matter of long drives between engagements...
Last week theaters were open until ten, packing their houses with Chu Chin Chow,* Hello, America, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Russian opera and ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
...lying fallow in his pocket, he might try one of the new Signature green labelled discs by Bud Jacobson's Rhythm Kings. They're completely improvised, of course, and Bud Freeman has some good moments as of yore. By next week there may be two new Commodores by Chu Berry and four or five other performers of like stature, but until then this just about exhausts the current crop...
...Japanese beheaded Chen Chung-chu. They left the body for the villagers, took the head away...