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A Music Hall Companion
hackeray's first biographer was Herman Merivale (1836-1906), the son of one of
the writer's close friends. Ill health prevented him from completing a life of
Thackeray, but some of his work corroborates Jeaffreson's story. When he treated
boys, it was with no ungenerous views about bed. After the play he ...
instance, or Charlie Barnet, or Woody Herman, or Count Basie, or Duke Ellington,
or either of the Dorsey brothers, or Chick Webb, or Jimmy Lunceford. Probably
not Artie Shaw, who had by now, it seemed to me, retired from the ardours of
bandleading at least ten times. Rivalry between the big bands was intense, a
situation which while it was good for business and gave the cloth-eared critics
something to write about, led inevitably to the ultimate lunacy of polls and awards
. It hardly ...
But with "Four Brothers", Herman introduced an entirely fresh conception based
on three tenors and a baritone, with Herman himself available for the occasional
sub-Johnny Hodges alto voice when required. But what lent vital interest to the "
Four Brothers" sound was not just its composition but its stylistic origin. The
choice by Herman of Zoot Sims, Stan Getz and Herbie Stewart (soon to be
replaced by Al Cohn) was the final belated vindication of Lester Young's one-
man revolution of ...
the golden age of popular song
Recounts the lives and times of the men who created the songs from the classic American musicals, such as the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, and Irving Berlin
Although the song came to nothing, the friendship endured to the extent that Max
passed Coward on to his publisher brother Herman, who, in his dealings with this
unknown young man, displayed a fetching combination of generosity and
dementia. Coward was always to find the business conventions of Tin Pan Alley
quaint to the brink of lunacy, and nothing more vividly exemplifies this than the
episode of his contract with Darewski: Through the influence of Max, I signed a
three-year ...
