Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressing race. This has been due to the company's emphasis on novelties like Joe Daniels's Hot Shots and popular favorites like Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, at the expense of weaker selling jazz. Then too, Decca's comparative youth prevented it from recording Beiderbecke, Armstrong, Bessic Smith and others who were in their prime before the New Deal. I hold no brief for pre-Repeal jazz. It's like pre-Repeal liquor--I can't swallow a lot of it. But some of it is undoubtedly the best music of its kind ever recorded...
...Pratt, Concord AcademyGeorge Frankforter Mary Richter, RadcliffeJohn W. Frenning Elaine Letts, BelmontThomas Green Lucy Sampson, BelmontPeter P. Grey Janet Thompson, RadcliffeEdward L. Hadley Yagerne Gaetz, RadcliffeVernon Head Joan Sullivan, New BedfordJay Hurley Mary Reed, Katherine GibbsJoseph Kameese Virginia Foley, NewtonJohn Keeler Betty Gibson, Montclair, N. J.N. Frederick Lang Charlotte Armstrong, RadcliffeEdmond LeMoal Elizabeth Jarret, Caldwell, N. J.Samuel Mantel Helen Raphael, BrightonJohn E. P. Morgan, Jr. Edith Winsor, WinsorCharles Morris Fran Gallagher, RegisMichael S. Olmstead Barbara Lotz, WellesleyBayard Osborn Mary-Edgar Reilly, Chapin School, N. Y.Frederic D. Powell Margaret Bacon, WellesleyWilliam Rich Mary-Ruth Gillispie, WellesleyHarold W. Smith Jean Drake, SmithJoseph...
...foundation of the whole swing craze of the past six years--hot jazz, the original "swing music," which was seized by the public fancy and diluted into almost unrecognizable cacophony. Swing became the all-inclusive word, embracing alike the beautiful solos of Louis Armstrong and the blatant output of so many contemporary bands. The result was that hot jazz was blamed for the excesses of the commercialized product...
Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...
...Nearly all of Crosby's many Decca recording are done in this style, and they show him to be a master of the ad lib, a good example of which is Small Fry, not exactly hot music, but with that quality of informal spontaneity which you hear in Louie Armstrong and others. Best of all is his famous Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, where Bing discovered that he was singing the wrong part of the tune at the wrong time. Without any hesitation he went on: "They cut out eight bars, the dirty--And I didn't know which eight...