Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week, Bob Jackson went to Cleveland to make the speech Franklin Roosevelt couldn't make in Washington...
...social significance and figures of ample-bosomed, pensive women. Those great art critics, the Washington correspondents, have never agreed about its social significance, but they are sure that the guy in the right-hand corner is making soft talk to the bare foot woman in pink. One day last week a big crowd of them stood brooding before it when a side door opened and into the room walked Frank Murphy, elevated that morning from the Attorney-Generalship to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...strangely enough, it makes quite an acceptable record....Jan Savitt's been turning out pop tunes, but they're excellent renditions and been watching. Total output of Woody Herman, Charlie Barnet, and Harry James has been nil lately, mainly due to overplaying. Woody has one coming out this week called "Blues On Parade" that ought to be pretty good, however...
Earl Hines has a good one in "Riff Medley" due to the short but swell plano solo. Look out for this week's Victor release of his "Rosetta" as a piano....On the same disc is a solo that he cut ten years ago for Victor that was never released. Ought to be worth listening to....Jimmy Lunceford's stuff has suffered lately from bad recording, his platter of "Liza" being a good example...
...Royal Garden Blues" is the finest example of small group ensemble playing I've heard....Muggay Spanier supposedly disbanded his little Dixteland band because of financial trouble to go back to Ted Weems. But the latest story is that he stayed with Weems till the end of the week and then went back to New York to round up his band...