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This immensity of tone and variety enables, almost compels, Bechet to dispense with a trumpeter. In his present quarter, "Big Chief" Russell Moore plays a sound and steady fill-in trombone, and his occasional solos are clean and imaginative, though not inspired. Art "Traps" Trappier keeps a driving beat on the drums without submitting to that urge for flashiness that often wrecks a band. Pianist Red Richards, the only new man in the group, is a skillful accompanist...
...rhythm section is one saving grace. Boogie-woogie specialist Sammy Price and drummer Art Trappier quadruple-handedly provide a strong driving beat that accomplishes much toward knitting the band closer together. Kaminsky's group plays jazz. It's one on the synthesized side...
Turmpeter Davison, clarinetist Buster Bailey, and trombonist Vic Dickenson are all fine frontmen, and Art Trappier, Johnny Fields, and George Wein furnish a steady background. But each of the horn-players is outstanding on only one of the three qualities that make up a great jazzman--tone, imagination, and the indefinable "drive." Bailey, from years of playing behind Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, possesses all the taste and tone in the group, ensemble specialist Dickenson has the musical imagination, and Davison alone carries the unit along with his driving-and-rocking school of musicianship...