Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author Richard Blackmore's novel, when outraged citizens marched against the Doones-outlaws who levied tribute on the surrounding country-they set up cannon on the mountain ridges on both sides of Doone Valley but, falling into discord, fired across the Valley at each other while the Doones sallied out unscathed below. Boomed Lindsay Warren...
...Goodman is a better hot clarinetist than Joe Marsala or who played the piano on Fletcher Henderson's record of Wang Wang Blues. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and squares off with a lucid chapter on "Improvisation, Notation and the Aesthetics of Folk Music." "Folk music," says Author Sargeant, "is the anonymous and musically illiterate expression of a whole people." America's folk music is jazz and the folk who originated it were Negroes. The contention is an old one, but hitherto nobody had taken such trouble to authenticate...
...positive moral values, an art that evades those attitudes of restraint and intellectual poise upon which complex civilizations are built. At best it offers civilized man only a temporary escape into drunken self-hypnotism." Like the American skyscraper, movie plot and funny paper, Jazz has no conclusion. But, admits Author Sargeant, it has vitality and, maybe, a future...
This candid author was born in England 59 years ago, ran off to the Boer War in 1899, almost died of enteric fever, met Mark Twain on a boat going to England. Mark Twain medicated the convalescent with Tom & Jerries (rum, hot water, cinnamon, eggs), persuaded him to go to the U. S. Jerger did so, got through his medical schooling and internship in Chicago, settled in Waterloo, Ia. Eventually he returned to Chicago and built up a fine surgical practice; but he never forgot that he was a family doctor...
Records: Benny Goodman keeps up his tradition of copying only the best in swing with "I'll Always Be in Love With You," a reissue of the old Fletcher Henderson arrangement. But since Benny didn't put his name on it as author, Fletcher Henderson used to be his arranger, and it con be ruled an excellent copy of an excellent arrangement... Bluebird turns out a very fine release this week with the famous "Honky Tonk Train Blues" by Lux Lewis, another boogie record by Pinetop Smith, and "Rosetta" with an all-star band. Fine jazz plus excellent recording make...