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...nights a week, Ralph Sutton, a gangling young (28) man in horn-rimmed spectacles, ambles across the bandstand of Eddie Condon's Greenwich Village jazz foundry and quietly joins the piano. He may ripple out a relaxed version of It's a Lovely Day Today or wander placidly through Bix Beiderbecke's jazz classic, In a Mist. Then he changes his pace. As Sutton explains it, "When the crowd gets with me, I begin bearing down." Sutton, bearing down on such ragtime standards as Ballin' the Jack or Maple Leaf Rag, delivers some of the solidest...
...Sutton decided what a jazz piano should sound like when he first heard some Fats Waller records as a Howell, Mo. grade-school boy. Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime. At 19, his swinging, loose-jointed beat and limber wrists got him a job as pianist with Jack Teagarden's band. In 1942 he was drafted. Since the war he has wandered in & out of Manhattan jazz...
Last week out-of-town ragtime fans got a chance to hear a solid sample of Sutton's style...
...Sutton Island, where the house is located, is about 270 miles from Boston, and near Mt. Desert Island. It can be reached once a day by mailboat from the mainland. There are no cars, or even horses on the island. Once on the square mile of land, there is nothing much to do but talk, pick berries, and fish off the docks for small sculpins, flounders, and jellyfish...
Another change in G.E. combines Social Sciences 3 and 4 into one course. It will be taught by the same men, John E. Sawyer, assistant professor of General Education, and Francis X, Sutton, assistant professor of Sociology...