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...money he's far and (away the star) should end all arguments as to his qualifications for the big league. Billy Kyle, who plays piano in a driving rhythmic style which might be described as super-Wilson, has for some inexplicable reason taken a back seat to Jess Stacy, Hines, and Joe Sullivan. However his work on these records (take for example his long chorus on The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise) shows him to be definitely in their class. Consequently, it seems to me that the Hot Record Society deserves some sort of a medal for giving...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES: Record of the year: Lee Wiley's Down to Steambaot Tennessee, slow Jess Stacy. That vocal, piano and cornet combination is a pretty famous one in jazz, as the great Bessie Smith used it on many of her recordings. Similarity doesn't stop here, though: Miss Wiley may not have the range that Bessie had, but her singing shows the same rich vibrato and feeling. Needless to say, the instrumental background is impeccable. Jess and Muggsy play unobtrusively, and the way they blend with the vocal results is a kind of jazz you don't hear...
James M. Montgomery '43, New York N.Y.; Robert K. Mooney '42, Waterford. Conn.; Benjamin Myers '41, Dorchester. Mass.; Jack Orloff '41, Newark. N.J.; Ray P. Perry '43, Kirkwood, Mo.; Jess R. Pit is '41, Marietta, Ohio...
This year's Harvard Varsity lacrosse team was the best to wear Crimson spangles in many years, and some of Coach Witherspoon's men have a chance to break into that select all-star group. Captain Gordy Halstead, Doug Anderson, Pete Zouck, Jess Willard, and George Hanford were outstanding individual stars this spring, and may make the Northern squad...
Pete Zouck and Doug Anderson led the scoring brigade in the afternoon's frolic by netting two points apiece. with the two scores from the sticks of Ed Ed-munds and Jess Willard the grand total was brought to six. Brooks paced the Yale scorers with three tallies to his credit while Dell pushed in the only other Bulldog counter to pass goalie George Hanford...