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...Wilson's small Cafe Society band. Certainly when a pseudo-jazz program like "Chamber Music of Basin Street" can build up a tremendous following, a little decent jazz ought to get along. The beauty of the Bailey-Wilson combination, especially, is that you needn't be an ardent swing addict to appreciate and enjoy their music...
...record be judged, as a whole, by its final effect. This way we find that only three artists have maintained a consistently high standard along with a large output: Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, and Mildred Bailey. Ellington and Wilson are fairly well-known, even among the lowest jive-addict, but Bailey, unfortunately, is a different case. To the swing fan she is just another singer, out of touch with the present "standards" of sexy song-singing. He probably first heard her when she sang with Goodman, bought a record of their joint efforts, and left it at that. To some...
...answer both at once. You can't convert both with the same argument. Aim your argument at the classicist and the popular-addict will accuse you of being high-brow. Aim your argument at the popular-addict and the classicist says, "You still haven't convinced me." Soooo, you go over into a corner and mull and mull. Then someone asks you what you're doing, and you tell him you want to find out a way to convert people to liking jazz. Invariably...
Opium dreams, as addicts know, sometimes approach a revelation of the ultimate truth. In its book reviews Punch recently plugged a book called A Modern De Quincey by Captain H. R. Robinson, onetime opium addict, who was commissioned in the British Indian Army in 1915. Said Punch's review...
Only a quick glimpse at the weekend's baseball results are enough to convince any sports addict that, footballs over Soldiers Field notwithstanding, Floyd Stahl's baseball charges are still bidding strongly for attention, with a late season rush that is a complete reversal of early summer uncertainty...