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Trumpet-playing, band-leading "Red" Nichols should know the wages of maestri. One of the great white jazzmen of the middle 1920's he recorded with his bands variously under the names of The Ramblers, The Little Ramblers, Red Nichols & His Five Hot Pennies, the Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Goofus Five. Great Nichols numbers: Riverboat Shuffle, Plenty Off Centre, Get With, Eccentric...
Last week, to fight such fake concerns, a committee was organized at the Lambs Club, Manhattan. Members were such big radio-earners as Frank Crumit, Jazzmen Johnny Green and Mark Warnow, Dr. Marion Sayle Taylor ("The Voice of Experience"). At first meeting they reviewed many an instance where innocents had been hoaxed by promising advertisements ("Be a Star in Six Weeks," "A Radio Job for Life"). Many had paid fancy fees on the assurance that a high-priced engagement automatically went with a diploma. The new committee proceeded to chronicle such cases, to warn the public that no authorized "radio...
...knees and played by the fingers of both hands), the claves (two sticks of a rare Cuban wood, which make a clicking sound when struck to gether) and the maracas (gourds filled with seeds which make a swishing sound) Vincent Lopez took up Cuban things and so did other jazzmen...
...years ago half the U. S. was humming a teasing melody called "The Song of India." Many a wailing tenor and shrilling soprano delivered it in cinema-houses and on radio programs. Jazzmen syncopated it successfully...