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...mother and baby sister in the dining room for several months. That episode became a song in Dory's first album. (Also in that album is a bitter song dedicated to Mia: "Beware of young girls/who come to the door/wistful and pale/of twenty and four . . .") Langan, a frustrated clarinetist, determined early that Dory would be a show-business success. He sent her out to sing in saloons at the age of eleven. Later he sent her to New York, where she dutifully enrolled in drama school...
...been developing his skills ever since age four, when his father Ernie Tomasso, an experienced clarinetist, started the boy on the piano. "He could play flattened ninth chords before he even knew what they were," says the proud father. A year later Enrico heard Satchmo on records and that was the end of the piano. Recalls Enrico: "Dad bought me a trumpet. Then he brought in a teacher. Most people think you blow ordinary when you blow a trumpet. You don't. You have to put your lips together and make a sound like bluebottle flies buzzing...
...America fullback. Yet the nurturing of naturally gifted kids is a proud and longstanding challenge to the American academic scene. Any young jazz player can certainly stand some formal polishing of his delayed triplets, skimmed notes, quarter-tone vibratos and other "words" in the jazz vocabulary. Says Clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre, head of the Jazz Ensemble at N.Y.U.'s School of Education: "It's amazing how many of them can benefit by being taught the little things-like staying in tune...
...prices weren't enough to attract an audience, the performers and the program would be. The Chamber Players include some fine instrumentalists, among them flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer, clarinetist Harold Wright, trumpeter Armando Ghitalla, and horn player James Stagliano. The programs, decided on co-operatively by the entire group, are diverse: this Sunday, the group will do a Rossini Quartet for Strings, Piston's Woodwind Quintet, and the Schubert Octet...
...wrote his first song before he was eight. Through a draft-board mix-up in 1943, Sonny was tapped for the Marines when he was only 14, got out, then served in the Navy from 1945 to 1948. By the time he was discharged, he had become a good clarinetist and saxophonist, as well as a good lightweight boxer. He settled in south-central L.A., boxed professionally and played in small jazz clubs for two years. He developed a heroin habit, was caught stealing a record player and thrown in jail. From then on, Sonny bounced back and forth between...