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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: October 2013
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Monday, October 28, 2013. Worcester and The Waste Land. 8220;You are the music while the music lasts.” – T.S. Eliot. Painting by Tim Gannon. Written by T.S. Eliot has been called the single most influential poetic work of the 20. Century and is widely recognized as one of the first great American poems to utilize the rhythms of jazz. It was first published stateside by Scofield Thayer of. In the 1920s, Thayer published The Dial. Called Eliot the “poet laureate and ...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: January 2014
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Monday, January 13, 2014. Summertime and the Worcester Account. He was one of Worcester’s finest writers and close friends with America’s most popular composer. S.N. Behrman was the scribe. George Gershwin was the tunesmith. According to accompanying notes to his early biography, The Worcester Account. Here’s the writer from The Worcester Account. 8220; The yards in the back had fruit trees – cherry and pear and apple. … Once, standing on our back piazza,...8217; she beg...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: A League of Her Own
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. A League of Her Own. In her book, Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940s. Here in Worcester, one such band was Maxine King and her Starlets, an all-girl territory band that barnstormed throughout New England in nightclubs, dance halls, and ballrooms. At its peak, the group had as many as 13 members and by most accounts could really swing. 8220;Around 1939 and 1940, when she was just out of high school, she had practice sessions with Emil Had...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: September 2013
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Friday, September 20, 2013. Trumpeter Howard McGhee’s Endless Journey into the Worcester Night. Trumpeter Howard McGhee was one of the first black jazz musicians accepted into an all-white big band, but he was denied admittance to hotels here in. The year was 1942. He was touring with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra. The band was booked for a three-night stay at the Plymouth Theater on. It should be noted that although. Also, according to the 1940 U.S. Census,. By Sanford J...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: April 2014
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Saturday, April 19, 2014. Mark Murphy's Stolen Moments in Worcester. Although he has appeared professionally in Worcester only a handful of times, jazz singer Mark Murphy has a deep history with this city going back generations. His grandfather, Richard D. Murphy, was a president of the Worcester Manufacturing Company and according to a 1916 issue of Industry Week, a former manager of the employment department of the Wyman-Gordon Co. In an interview with Lee Mergner for.
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: December 2013
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Sunday, December 29, 2013. Worcester's "Sinatra of the Trumpet". He was a trumpeter and popular bandleader whose 1940s orchestra became the incubator for a generation of Worcester’s musicians. His name was Bob Pooley, and a partial list of players to pass through the ranks of his illustrious bands, include such notables as Don Fagerquist, Murray Guarlnick, and Bobby Holt, musicians who became nationally recognized and renowned soloists. Pooley not pictured.). 8220; Other...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: May 2014
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Saturday, May 17, 2014. Jackie Stevens' Giant Steps at the Kitty Kat. Sometime in the early ’70s — no one is quite sure of the exact dates –Jackie Stevens was a regular feature at both the Thursday evening and Sunday afternoon jazz sets at the Kitty Kat, a long lost. The club was owned by the late drummer Reggie Walley, who played host to many of the finest local musicians of the period. John “Jack” Stevens was born. September 25, 1940. He was raised in. In addition to p...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: March 2014
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Saturday, March 29, 2014. Swing and Sweat with Dol Brissette. With that, the tune approaches its cadenza. At song's end, the broadcasters returns to introduce the first piece of the show saying, “Dol digs deep into the files for this first tune, a classic of the jazz era you'll all remember as, 'That's My Weakness Now.”. The live session was recorded sometime around 1940 at WTAG AM 580, when the studios were still on the fourth floor of the Telegram & Gazette building on...
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester: February 2015
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Jazz Riffing on a Lost Worcester. Tuesday, February 10, 2015. A League of Her Own. In her book, Swing Shift: All-Girl Bands of the 1940s. Here in Worcester, one such band was Maxine King and her Starlets, an all-girl territory band that barnstormed throughout New England in nightclubs, dance halls, and ballrooms. At its peak, the group had as many as 13 members and by most accounts could really swing. 8220;Around 1939 and 1940, when she was just out of high school, she had practice sessions with Emil Had...
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