Word: cornet
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Manager Shoot-the-sherbet-to-me-Herbert Schwetman played a hot cornet, while Cokey Wing, Colonel Fox, and Send-me-Sandford backed him up with violins. Lt. Mawhinney on the tuba and Ensigns Jackson and Hofheimer showed the faculty that there's more to harmony than Fourier Analysis. Miss Frances Jennings played the electronic musical instrument, the Theremin...
...Gilhens will modulate a tuba, Dr. LeCorbeilor will filter a bass viol Dr. Tatum will amplify a saxophone, and Mr. Schwetman will blast away on a hot cornet. The faculty is combing the electrons out of its hair and students are invited to witness and heckle at the performance...
...Bunk. And Bunk, who could play any tune in any key without stopping to think ("sharps and flats they never bothered me"), was the greatest of them all. Bunk, they said, "had more in his haid." He had played ever since his mother had bought her kid a battered cornet. "She told me," he said later, "if I learn to play real good, she get me another, and I did learn to play real good...
...years went by and the demand for New Orleans jazz died away, Bunk took other kinds of work to support his growing family. In 1933 he lost all his teeth and could not play any more even if he wanted to. "And besides," says he, "I loan my cornet to a man and he never come back." Bunk tried trucking, at $1.50 a day. He found it too strenuous and became a stoop laborer in the rice fields. "But," says he, "I always whistle. I can whistle real good...
Chances are you've never heard of "Mississippi Mud." By way of explanation, Paul Whiteman's version of it was the rage of the late twenties, for Bix Beiderbecke's cornet solo and the Rhythm Boys' singing. Beyond a doubt Dinah took her cue from the record, but no one who has heard it will be surprised to know that she loused up the song good and plenty. In spite of all her speeches about how she learned to sing by listening to the Negroes back home, da-own Sa-outh, Dinah's singing has very little of the true...