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...Camp Butner's soldiers fight it out in elimination bouts, to contend some day for the Division championship. Friday night is the big night. With regimental bands tootling between bouts, an eleven-match card is staged in the camp's natural amphitheater on the side of a pine-rimmed hill. Fights are limited to three rounds (four in case of a draw...
Like any other soldiers, airmen learn more in a few hours of fighting than in months of training; the smart ones convert their varied experiences to new techniques of battle. Last week on the palm-and pine-dotted sands of central Florida the Army Air Forces showed how it was spreading these new arts of war through squadrons fighting around the world...
Made from pine and cottonwood, decorated with paper flowers and covered with a crude gesso,* these bultos (figures carved in the round) and retablos (painted panels) of the Saints and Holy Family were vaguely reminiscent of medieval European art, utterly unlike anything else the U.S. has produced. They were done between 1725 and 1875 by humble priests and lay members of tiny churches in the poverty-stricken regions of Southern Colorado and New Mexico...
...Pine Top album is even more tempting, particularly as it consists of only two records. The first one, "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" and "Pine Top's Blues" however, has been reissued previously by UMCA-Commodore for the same price, if you can find it. PT, as you probably know, is one of the acknowledged originators of BW, though there is still plenty of argument going on. Regardless of whether he did or didn't, Pine Top is undeniably one of the most remarkable jazz pianists. His BW is strong and flexible, but it never skims the surface like Kenneth...
...playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date, 1928. The recording is astonishingly faithful...