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...what is this I hear about you bringing a piano over there? We don't care for that sort of thing. Some fellows over in "A" entry were trying to form a jazz combo last fall. We broke that up." He smiled reflectively and walked past us into the bedroom. We could hear him picking up papers and letters from the desk...
...place of the organ there is a glass-fronted control room which bristles with switches, plugs and dials. Instead of such rousing hymns as Onward! Christian Soldiers and Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus, the old building resounded this week to the throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde in her stocking feet poised herself before a microphone and sang a little number about a fellow who wouldn't take his hand off her knee...
Leverett outplayed Adams to win 24-0 in the other contest. All four touch downs were scored on a Bucky O'Connor, Lowell Sachnoff pass combo. Leverett also gained 175 yards on the ground...
...spend all their time making music-in the front lines whenever possible. The band's headquarters were moved up from the rear to a forward command post. In addition to the regular band for martial music, there is a 13-piece dance orchestra, a four-piece "hillbilly combo," an eight-piece Dixieland jazz group, a "novelty group" for European folk songs and classics...
...evolution of jazz styles has bored the public. The big bands find it hard to live and many of them have dissolved, reforming only for specific jobs. Count Basie works with a small combo . . . Duke Ellington has no following...