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Clarinet, saxophone, and drumming.
Assisted by a pianist on the stage and a trap drummer in the orchestra pit, Wilbur Sweatman runs through a repertoire of clarionette and saxophone offerings that stamp him as one of the leading individual exponents of jazz. He makes the clarionette cry with "Until My Daddy Comes Home" and plays three clarionettes in the "Rosary." He has a medley of popular airs on the sax and uses the trap drummer in another clarionette number, the spot being thrown on the pit. The drummer is excess, he doesn't help the number nor do anything the house musician couldn't do. Sweatman is an excellent musician and was forced to encore with a slow tempo "blues."
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Variety, 54:13 (05/23/1919)