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...five he discovered music. The town's most famous honky-tonk dance place, Funky Butt Hall, used to send its band-including Cornettist Buddy Bolden, Trumpeters Bunk Johnson and Joe ("King") Oliver-out on the street to drum up business. Armstrong hung around to listen. By the time he was twelve, he was strolling through the Storyville red-light district singing tenor in a boys' quartet. Taunted one day by a neighborhood tough, he swiped a revolver and charged down Rampart Street, firing shots into the air. He was caught and shipped off to the Colored Waifs...
Died. Frank Trumbauer, 56, goateed hot saxophonist of the Jazz Age, musicmaking crony of the late great Cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, and wartime test pilot; of a heart attack; in Kansas City...
Shades of Bix (Jimmy McPartland and his band; Brunswick LP). Trumpeter McPartland undertakes the touchy task of recapturing the style and feeling of the cornettist Bix Beiderbecke, in the process socks out some fine Dixieland jazz. The combo, a duplication of Bix's own Gang (including a hoarse-voiced baritone sax), gets a lift from the inspired drumming of George Wettling...
...Feel for the Beat. Eventually, Marian toured as an entertainer for ENSA, the British version of the USO, and then switched to the USO itself. She landed in Normandy soon after the first troops, and a few months later in Belgium met Dixieland Cornettist Jimmy McPartland, a private in the 2nd Division. They were married in Aachen, and two years later had their own Dixieland band in Chicago (TIME...
This Is Jazz (Muggsy Spanier; Circle, 2 sides LP). More honky-tonk classics, as recorded from radio broadcasts. Among Cornettist Spanier's helpers are Pianist Joe Sullivan, Trombonist George Brunis, Drummer Baby Dodds. Among the best numbers: A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Muskrat Ramble, Jada...