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11-651: Jeter and Pillars were previously members of Alphonso Trent 's big band. After that outfit split in 1933 they formed the group, which subsequently became the house band at the Club Plantation in St. Louis, Missouri , their home base for the next decade. Most of the Jeter-Pillars band served as musicians during World War II , several recruited into the United States Navy by Len Bowden, who also had

22-719: A band in St. Louis prior to the war. Joining the Navy in September 1942 were James Cannady, guitarist and arranger for Jeter-Pilars; Roy Torian, a trombonist who had been treasurer of the Musicians Equity Association in St. Louis, the "race sub-local of the American Federation of Musicians"; Merrill Tarrant, trumpet; Sykes Smith, trumpet; and Charles Pillars, saxophone, who with his brother, Hayes Pillar,

33-508: A page of transcriptions of the lyrics from blues recordings by a variety of singers, e.g., in the seventh issue: In addition to the magazine's founders, the following writers contributed articles to The Jazz Review : A later California -based magazine also titled The Jazz Review , edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher , appeared in 1991–1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie , Miles Davis , Charlie Haden , and other artists. This music magazine or journal–related article

44-425: A somewhat obscure figure today, but the sophistication of his arrangements and the precision with which they were executed inspired awe in contemporaries - one such, Budd Johnson (quoted by Gunther Schuller via The Jazz Review ) stated: Let me tell you about Trent... They were gods back in the twenties, just like Basie was, only many years ahead of him... They worked nothing but the biggest and finest hotels in

55-489: The Carolina Cotton Pickers, Don Albert , and Fats Waller , among others. The Jeter-Pillars Orchestra served as a training ground for up-and-coming jazz players including trumpeters Harry "Sweets" Edison and Peanuts Holland , bassist Jimmy Blanton , drummers Jo Jones , Sid Catlett and Kenny Clarke , guitarist Floyd Smith , tenor-saxophonist Jimmy Forrest , and alto saxophonist Chris Woods . In

66-544: The East Coast. He left music in the mid-1930s but returned with another band in 1938. His sidemen included Terrence Holder , Alex Hill , Stuff Smith , Snub Mosley , Charlie Christian , Sweets Edison , Mouse Randolph , and Peanuts Holland . As leader, he recorded only eight sides: four in 1928, two in 1930, and two in 1933. He died in Fort Smith on October 14, 1959. His small recorded legacy has made him

77-612: The South... They were years ahead of their time. The Jazz Review The Jazz Review was a jazz criticism magazine founded by Nat Hentoff and Martin Williams in New York City in 1958. It was published till 1961. Hentoff and Williams were co-editors throughout its brief existence (23 issues). Many issues of The Jazz Review are available at Jazz Studies Online, which assesses its quality as follows: While all of

88-540: The late 1940s, the group toured the Far East for the USO, before breaking up. The Jeter-Pillars Orchestra recorded four sides for Vocalion Records in 1937. The recordings were: This jazz -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alphonso Trent Alphonse " Alphonso " Trent (October 24, 1902 – October 14, 1959) was an American jazz pianist and territory band leader. Trent

99-459: The material is of high quality, several features are particularly distinctive: the regular reviews of musicians' work by other musicians; Hentoff's regular column "Jazz in Print", which deals with the politics of the music business as well as of the nation; and the incorporation of a wide range of musical styles and approaches to discussing jazz. A regular feature of The Jazz Review was "The Blues,"

110-727: Was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on October 24, 1902. He played piano from childhood and worked in local bands in Arkansas through his youth. He led his first band in the mid-1920s, possibly as early as 1923. In 1924 he played with Eugene Cook 's Synco Six, and then took over leadership of the band, which played until 1934, playing mostly in the American South and Midwest , as well as on steamboats . Despite success in New York around 1930, Trent chose not to work further on

121-573: Was co-leader of Jeter-Pilars. Elbert Claybrook, trumpet, had also been with Jeter-Pillars but had taken a job at Scullin Steel Mills prior to enlisting. All were sent to Camp Robert Smalls , Chicago , for basic training. Charles Pillars, Torian, Cannady, Smith, and Tarrant remained at Camp Smalls as players in the Ships Company A Band, which also included players from civilian bands led by Jimmie Lunceford , Charlie Spivak , George Hudson ,

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